The Significance of Beauty: Kant on Feeling and the System of the MindIn the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. Feeling has a special role within this system in that it also provides a transition between the other two powers of the mind, cognition and desire. Matthews argues that feeling, our experience of beauty, provides a transition because it orients humans in a sensible world. Judgments of taste help overcome the difficulties that arise when rational cognitive and moral ends must be pursued in a sensible world. Matthews demonstrates how feeling, disassociated from rational activities in Kant's earlier works, is now central in reaching rational ends and understanding humans as unified rational beings. Audience: This book would be of interest to research libraries and university libraries, philosophers, historians and aestheticians. |
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The Significance of Beauty | 12 |
Judgments of Taste | 19 |
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abstract from sensible according achieve aesthetic judgment agreeable antinomy apperception beautiful objects categorical imperative cognitive powers common sense connection consider Critique of Aesthetic Critique of Judgment deduction of judgments domain Düsing empirical experience faculties feeling of pleasure free harmony free play Further Genova goal Guyer harmony of imagination human idea imagination and understanding insofar Introduction intuition involved judging judgments of taste Kant argues Kant's Aesthetics Kant's claim Kant's Theory knowledge Makkreel merely Mikkelsen mind moral judgments moral law negative freedom orientation possible principle of purposiveness priori principle problem of taste pure practical reason reflective judgment respect role Schiller second Critique sensation sensible desires sensible nature sensible world sensus communis subjective purposiveness supersensible basis supersensible ground supersensible realm supersensible substrate symbol of morality system of nature taste are based teleological judgment theoretical and practical theoretical reason third Critique transcendental transcendental idealism unified unity of reason universally valid