Aomame

The Mountains

Being surrounded by mountains can make us realize how big and vast nature is. It is famously said by Schopenhauer that we can feel how little we are as humans and that the beauty of the nature of nature has the capacity to make us forget ourselves altogether. Schopenhauer has argued in his book “The World as Will and Representation” that we can experience the sublime while being engaged in watching the splendor that is everywhere around us. In this work, he describes the sublime as an experience that arises when we are confronted with the vastness and power of nature, which makes us aware of our own smallness and insignificance. Art too, says Schopenhauer, has this very same capacity of making us experience the sublime, dissolving our very own ego.