ENGL 3251H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Human Instinct
15 Oct 2018
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In other words, good taste depends on soundness of judgment (sensibility and judgment) The positive nature of pleasure and pain: something is good if it affords pleasure and something is bad if it affords pain, pleasure vs. Self-preservation and pain: the human instinct to self-preservation is governed largely by our ability to use our judgment to avoid that which causes pain. The sublime: this raises a problem for blake sometimes that which is horrifying can also afford a certain amount of satisfaction or delight. He calls this the sublime: the sublime is an experience of delightful terror (seeing a tiger at the zoo, burke believes the sublime is the most heightened sensual experience we can have. Pleasure and generation: generation meaning self-reproduction, society is governed by instinct to withdraw and preserve yet also to come together and. Instinct to reproduce is also seeking pleasure reproduce.
