There are three main aesthetic categories: the beautiful, the sublime, and really good sandwiches.

The Sublime, in aesthetic theory, is something powerful and terrifying that arouses a strange feeling of pleasure in the subject. For example, when viewing a hurricane or vast desert wasteland you can be overwhelmed by their awesome force, but exulted at the same time. For Schopenhauer, this involved a kind of "turning away of the will". The sheer awesome power of the object overwhelms our will and violently turns it away from ourselves, and we enter into a will-less state of pure contemplation of the object, which results in a strange exultation: the sublime. This is an unstable state, which is difficult to maintain, because any awareness of the particular danger that the object causes us, or reflection on ourselves in relation to the object, would destroy the affect. So we feel the sublime at witnessing the awesome power of a tornado, but if we become aware that the tornado is in fact heading towards us and is probably going to kill us, we will just feel regular old, non-sublimey terror. One of my older comics was a more serious take on this aesthetic theory.
If you are interested in more, this is a pretty good lecture of Schopenhauer's Aesthetics, by Alex Neill. The Stanford Encyclopedia also has a good article on it.
The art is a reference to Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, which is commonly used to portray the sublime in art, and many of his other paintings had similar themes.

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Eventually Nietzsche built his team of 100% Übermensches. It was a total disaster, of course, as everyone did their own thing. But obviously, it was all the fault of the slave morality of the consumers.

For Nietzsche, humanity in his era was entering into a kind of crisis mode as it secularized. Humanity had always been okay with suffering, according to Nietzsche, as long as it was able to find meaning in the suffering. When the existence of God was generally unquestioned, this wasn't a difficult task, your suffering was part of a higher plan and would lead towards your place alongside God in heaven. However, as this sort of narrative became more questioned, people were having a harder and harder time dealing their suffering, and their life. What humanity could not stand was to be born, to suffer, and to die for no reason at all. Justifying our existence was the task that we had to take on after the "death of God", and it was a very difficult one. The thing precisely not to do was to take on the moralizing culture of those around you, which Nietzsche thought was a kind of "slave morality", which defined itself through weakness and contempt of the strong. This kind of morality was inherited from Christianity, and would only hold you back from any potential you had to find real meaning in life. While he thought most people were not strong enough to break out of the value system that they were born into, some individuals could do this through creativity and genuine expression of their selves. This is what he meant by "becoming who you are", and he saw this as the main task of life, and the only way to rescue yourself from nihilism.

Earlier that night:
"Is that really what you are wearing?"
"Yes, men love huge feather hats. They find them very attractive."
"Alright...whatever, let's just go."

Immanuel Kant was a very boring man.
He never married, and probably died a virgin. The townsfolk were said to set their watches by his daily walks, as they were taken at such precise times. He basically never left his home town. His biography pretty much consists of: "He wrote some philosophy. He didn't write much philosophy for a while. He read Hume, and that made him write more philosophy." According to wikipedia, John T. Goldthwait supposedly refuted the idea that Kant was so boring, in his introduction to Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, with the following two facts:
1. While he never married, he had an active social life, including a friendship with Joseph Green, an English merchant.
2. It is a myth that he never traveled more than 16 kilometers from his hometown. He once traveled as far as 20 kilometers to tutor philosophy, and another time as far as 145 kilometers, again to tutor philosophy.
Now, and maybe this is just me, but if I arrive at the end of my life and a biographer is charged with defending me against accusations of being boring, I should hope that they can come up with something better than "once traveled a small distance to teach philosophy, and had one friend."
David Hume and Albert Camus, on the other hand, liked to party. The woman at the bar is Elizabeth of Behemia, who also never married. She is best known for her correspondences with Descartes, where she criticized his substance dualism.
If you are interested in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Robert Wolff has a great lecture series on YouTube that he is putting out for free. He's also super old, and tells a lot of great old man stories, if that's your thing.

Although, to be fair, math is hard.