It is the momentary realization of your place in the world. Where Kant chose reason as an exterior means to view the sublime, we choose to experience it through imagination. The face to face situation of you and your human condition in a world of cultural numbness and games becomes the only truth. This truth presents itself as something that humans want to live over and over again. During the sublime experience we are offered a glimpse of the answers.
Ethics originates from the inside and moves toward the outside.
The internal event of the sublime occurs despite our perceptions, and because of what is inside of us as humans. The instantaneous modernist sublime experience happened in the realm of perceptions, in the realm of aesthetics. The long term effect of that experience was the ethical ramification. There is a change or even a reversal in the implication of the modern and postmodern sublime for aesthetics and ethics. We postmodernists experience this in the causes and effects of the sublime.