Empfindung

Farbe, eine gewisse Eigenschaft der Körper, wodurch sie die Lichtstrahlen dergestalt zurückwerfen, daß in unserm Auge eine gewisse Empfindung entsteht.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The central arguments of this digression, which comes in Herz's exposition of Kant's new theory of space and time as the forms of sensibility, are first, that beauty is an objective property especially connected to the form of an object, and not a mere sensation or sentiment (Empfindung) in the subject, and second, that there are general principles of beautiful form.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Thus the experience of beauty becomes the sensation or sentiment (Empfindung) caused by the perfection of the object, rather than a clear but indistinct cognition of that perfection.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

One might even say that the body is constituted in its mode of being as feeling (Empfindung).

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Harvey, Van A. 2007

The will is not an independent and autonomous faculty but another name for the seat of Empfindung

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Harvey, Van A. 2007

Perception, in German, is usually Empfindung or Wahrnehmung.

Firedoglake » To Biscuit or Not to Biscuit? 2006

Consequently, "th [is] subjective unity of relation" can never be objectified by consciousness as such but, instead, "can only make itself known by means of sensation" [Empfindung] (§ 9, 53).

The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant, 1999

The Kantian "aesthetic" thus strives to reflect and represent the crucial balance between the subjective "intensity" of Gefühl and in its phenomenal origination as Empfindung.

The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant, 1999

The word “Empfindsamkeit” was afterwards used sometimes simply as an equivalent of “Empfindung,” or sensation, without implication of the manner of sensing: for example one finds in the _Morgenblatt_ [35] a poem named “Empfindsamkeiten am Rheinfalle vom Felsen der Galerie abgeschrieben.”

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

Wenn eine mühsame Reise eine Reise heisst, bey der viel Mühe ist: so kann ja auch eine empfindsame Reise eine Reise heissen, bey der viel Empfindung war.

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century