purpose of the presentation of a concept is made harder [to realise] by the intuition of the object being almost too great for our faculty of apprehension. — A pure judgement upon the sublime must, however, have no purpose of the Object as its determining ground, if it is to be aesthetical and not mixed up with any judgement of Understanding or Reason.

Because everything which is to give disinterested pleasure to the merely reflective Judgement must bring with the representation of it, subjective and, as subjective, universally valid purposiveness — although no purposiveness of the form of the object lies (as in the case of the Beautiful) at the ground of the judgement — the question arises “what is this subjective purposiveness?” And how does it come to be prescribed as