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Edmund Burke on the sublime
Some things that move us are beautiful, others are sublime. But the sublime moves us more profoundly than the beautiful. See how Edmund Burke tied the experience of the sublime to the possibility of pain and how the idea went on to influence the artistic Romanticism movement.
Voiced by Harry Shearer. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.
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