关于崇高,康德写下了令人困惑的一段文字,“自然界的崇高概念远不如自然中美的概念那么重要和有丰富的结果;它所表明的根本不是自然本身中的合目的之物,而只是对自然直观的可能的运用中的合目的之物,为的是使某种完全独立于自然的合目的性可以在我们心中被感到。……它把崇高的 About sublime, Kant wrote a puzzling passage, "The lofty concept of nature is far less important and rich than the natural concept of China and the United States; what it shows is not what is conceivable in nature itself, but merely A purposeful thing in the possible application of nature’s intuition, in order that a certain omnipotence entirely independent of nature may be felt in our hearts .... It divides the noble