The Critique of Teleological Judgment. Not surprisingly, we shall be concerned with Part One, but first a word about teleology. The object of such a liking is called beautiful . The liking that determines a judgment of taste is devoid of all interest. The beautiful is what is presented without concepts as the object of a universal liking.
Flowers are free natural beauties.
True sublimity must be sought only in the mind of the judging person, not in the natural object the judging of which prompts this mental attunement. If we are trying to judge nature as sublime dynamically, we must present it as arousing fear. We can . . . consider an object fearful without being afraid of it, . . . if we judge it in such a way that we merely think of the case where we might possibly want to put up resistance against it, and that any resistance would in that case be utterly futile. Thus a virtuous person fears God without being afraid of him. For he does not think of wanting to resist God and his commandments as a possibility that should worry him .