The divine and the sublime. Some reflections about Kant’s aesthetic experience

Abstract

As Marí­a Zambrano says, it has been a few time since man examines his present and proyects his future without counting with the gods or any divine manifestation. It has been denominated secularization to the phenomenon that has caused this new vision of the world. However, the recent presence of secularization in the old and large human history does not seems to surprise, amaze or incommode anyone. Nobody worries about inquire into, not even questioning what in a determined moment of history of culture allowed the divine to stop being intimate part of human life. In this way, whereas the secularization has so much on it and works, besides, to fundate very diverse analizis and considerations of the actual philosophy, it is little questioned, crticized or confronted. Because, for almost everybody, the causes which provoked the desacralization of nature are pretty obvious.