# Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) prints national and gendered character rankings as a public text

Date: 1764

## The fact

In 1764 Kant published Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, printing national and gendered character rankings. The instrument is that book. Immanuel Kant's documented role is: He published national-character and gender rankings in a popular aesthetics book. Later reprints carry them.

## Context

The 1790 third Critique is a different aesthetic treatise. Sharing unnamed Königsberg readers is required. The setting of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) prints national and gendered character rankings as a public text is the public file around 1764-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant's aesthetics neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Britannica — Immanuel Kant, pre-critical writings neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Immanuel-Kant (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant's aesthetics neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Britannica — Immanuel Kant, pre-critical writings neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Immanuel-Kant; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant's aesthetics neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Worsening path from Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) prints national and gendered character rankings as a public text on 1764-01-01. Printed character-rankings are a polarisation path of high confidence on the text. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) prints national and gendered character rankings as a public text under 1764-01-01 for Immanuel Kant. Established: a sourced public record of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) prints national and gendered character rankings as a public text under 1764-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat this as the 1790 Critique of Judgment. Two aesthetic instruments, twenty-six years apart. Mixed effects of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) prints national and gendered character rankings as a public text are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) prints national and gendered character rankings as a public text. Naming Immanuel Kant does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1764-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Immanuel Kant: https://factrail.ai/people/immanuel-kant

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Immanuel-Kant

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kan-observations-1764