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>disinterested aesthetic contemplation will always be nobler than its counterpart.
I agree with Nietzsche's diagnosis that this is an anti-human sentiment, as if there were something disagreeable or inferior about having passions, about being moved by something. It's not even properly religious, imo. I like the Old Testament God with his furies and his "bowels of tender mercy and compassion" more than the sterile god dreamt up by the philosophers... That's not to say there is anything bad about "disinterested aesthetic contemplation" either - only that by elevating it above the experience of the sublime, you are trying to make people feel ashamed of their most powerful and moving experiences. Trying to turn them into termites. Anaemic robots.