Philosophical Enquiry
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Philosophical Enquiry is Edmund Burke’s influential 18th-century work of aesthetics that explores the psychological and emotional foundations of the sublime and the beautiful.
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Target entity: Philosophical Enquiry Context triple: [A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, titleAbbreviation, Philosophical Enquiry]
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A.
Philosophical Arguments
Philosophical Arguments is a collection of essays by philosopher Charles Taylor that explores key themes in moral philosophy, political theory, and the philosophy of mind and language.
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B.
Philosophical Essays
Philosophical Essays is a collection of influential papers by A. J. Ayer that develops and defends key themes of logical positivism and analytic philosophy.
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C.
Philosophical Essays
Philosophical Essays is a major work of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Dugald Stewart, in which he explores topics in epistemology, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of mind.
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D.
Philosophical Explanations
Philosophical Explanations is a major 1981 work of analytic philosophy by Robert Nozick that explores topics such as knowledge, free will, personal identity, and the meaning of life through a distinctive explanatory rather than argumentative approach.
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E.
Analysis and Metaphysics
Analysis and Metaphysics is a philosophical work by P. F. Strawson that offers a systematic introduction to central issues in analytic metaphysics, including concepts such as individuals, identity, and the structure of reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philosophical Enquiry Target entity description: Philosophical Enquiry is Edmund Burke’s influential 18th-century work of aesthetics that explores the psychological and emotional foundations of the sublime and the beautiful.
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A.
Philosophical Arguments
Philosophical Arguments is a collection of essays by philosopher Charles Taylor that explores key themes in moral philosophy, political theory, and the philosophy of mind and language.
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B.
Philosophical Essays
Philosophical Essays is a collection of influential papers by A. J. Ayer that develops and defends key themes of logical positivism and analytic philosophy.
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C.
Philosophical Essays
Philosophical Essays is a major work of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Dugald Stewart, in which he explores topics in epistemology, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of mind.
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D.
Philosophical Explanations
Philosophical Explanations is a major 1981 work of analytic philosophy by Robert Nozick that explores topics such as knowledge, free will, personal identity, and the meaning of life through a distinctive explanatory rather than argumentative approach.
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E.
Analysis and Metaphysics
Analysis and Metaphysics is a philosophical work by P. F. Strawson that offers a systematic introduction to central issues in analytic metaphysics, including concepts such as individuals, identity, and the structure of reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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| instanceOf |
aesthetic treatise
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philosophical treatise ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
British empiricism
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Enlightenment philosophy ⓘ |
| author | Edmund Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfPublication | 18th century ⓘ |
| contrasts | the sublime with the beautiful ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| firstEditionPublisher | R. and J. Dodsley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
emotional foundations of the sublime and the beautiful
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psychological foundations of aesthetic response ⓘ |
| genre |
aesthetics
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philosophy ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
A Philosophical Enquiry
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Philosophical Enquiry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
analysis of beauty and pleasure
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analysis of terror and obscurity ⓘ discussion of taste and judgment ⓘ |
| hasRevisedEdition | second edition 1759 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
foundational work in modern aesthetics
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major early modern theory of the sublime ⓘ |
| influenced |
German aesthetics
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Immanuel Kant NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ later theories of the sublime ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
aesthetic experience
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psychology of emotion ⓘ taste ⓘ the beautiful ⓘ the sublime ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
associationist psychology of aesthetic response
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distinction between sublime and beautiful ⓘ link between the sublime and terror ⓘ role of pain and pleasure in aesthetics ⓘ |
| period | early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proposes | physiological explanations of aesthetic feelings ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1757 ⓘ |
| relatedDiscipline |
art theory
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literary theory ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor | Reflections on the Revolution in France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Romantic literature studies
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history of aesthetics ⓘ history of philosophy ⓘ |
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Philosophical Enquiry
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