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Sublime
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The philosophical grounding of the Sublime is traditionally traced to the treatise On the Sublime (Greek: $\pi\epsilon\rho\acute{\iota}$ $\upsilon\psi\omicron\upsilon\varsigma$), erroneously attributed to the 1st-century rhetorician Longinus. Longinus focused primarily on literary grandeur, defining the Sublime as the quality of speech that "lifts the soul out of itself" through elevated thought and passionate expression [2].
The modern aesthetic categorization occurred during the 18th century, significantly adv…