Arcangeli Margherita, Sperduti Marco, Jacquot Amélie, Piolino Pascale, Dokic Jérôme
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Institut Jean Nicod, UMR 8129, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jun 16;11:1340. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01340. eCollection 2020.
Awe seems to be a complex emotion or emotional construct characterized by a mix of positive (contentment, happiness), and negative affective components (fear and a sense of being smaller, humbler or insignificant). It is striking that the elicitors of awe correspond closely to what philosophical aesthetics, and especially Burke and Kant, have called "the sublime." As a matter of fact, awe is almost absent from the philosophical agenda, while there are very few studies on the experience of the sublime as such in the psychological literature. The aim of this paper is to throw light on the complex relationship between awe (as understood by psychologists) and the experience of the sublime (as discussed by philosophers). We distinguish seven ways of conceiving this relationship and highlight those that seem more promising to us. Once we have a clearer picture of how awe and the experience of the sublime are related, we can use it to enhance collaboration between these domains. We would be able to use empirical results about awe in a philosophical analysis of the experience of the sublime, which in turn can help us to design novel experimental hypotheses about the contexts in which we experience awe.
敬畏似乎是一种复杂的情感或情感结构，其特征是混合了积极的（满足、幸福）和消极的情感成分（恐惧以及一种渺小、谦卑或微不足道的感觉）。引人注目的是，引发敬畏的因素与哲学美学，尤其是伯克和康德所称的“崇高”密切对应。事实上，敬畏在哲学议程中几乎不存在，而在心理学文献中，关于崇高体验本身的研究也非常少。本文的目的是阐明敬畏（如心理学家所理解的）与崇高体验（如哲学家所讨论的）之间的复杂关系。我们区分了七种理解这种关系的方式，并突出了那些对我们来说似乎更有前景的方式。一旦我们更清楚地了解敬畏与崇高体验是如何相关的，我们就可以利用它来加强这些领域之间的合作。我们将能够在对崇高体验的哲学分析中使用关于敬畏的实证结果，这反过来又可以帮助我们设计关于我们体验敬畏的情境的新颖实验假设。
