thank you, Lars.
The Kant quote is wonderful.
(But not helpful for promotion. Sure, you can cite Kant -- that wouldn't help you get promoted. But you would get a tremendous boost if Kant would cite you. I searched for him on LinkedIn and found 2,543 hits for "Kant" but none of them seemed to be Immanuel Kant. I guess he is not interested in social networks. Too bad, because I am certain lots of people would like to Link to him.)
Don
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Thanks Don for his thoughts, also on the "citing business".
I guess Kant may then be a "great" reference, even from the early, pre-critique era?
"Tall oaks and lonely shadows in a sacred grove are sublime. Flower beds, low hedges and trees trimmed in figures are beautiful. Night is sublime, day is beautiful. Temperaments that possess a feeling for the sublime are drawn gradually, by the quiet stillness of a summer evening as the shimmering light of stars breaks through the brown shadows of night and the lonely moon rises into view, into high feelings of friendship, of disdain for the world, of eternity…the sublime moves, the beautiful charms…"
Kant, I. (1960). Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime. Berkeley,: University of California Press.
/Lars
PS: This discussion also revokes memories of the 80ies and the "Turing test" for artificial intelligence. (A computer would be considered intelligent if a human interacting with it could not decide whether she was interacting with a human or a computer). I remember a researcher that stated in an internet forum (yes, there were such way before the web): "On Monday mornings I wouldn't pass the Turing test".
Perhaps there are those that appreciate the aesthetics of the web site better than their own judgment and that a market of competing aesthetics sites could develop, much like the market for magazines on interiors decoration?
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