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The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics

The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics

Kalar, Brent

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy, Book 42

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0826488900
ISBN13: 9780826488909
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 15 2006
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Typically philosophers have either viewed beauty as objective and judgments of beauty as universally valid, or else they have viewed beauty as subjective and regarded judgments of beauty as merely private preferences. Immanuel Kant is famous for his unique third path. Kant argues that beauty is subjective, but the judgment of taste about beauty is capable of universal validity. In his view, the beautiful is not a feature of objects themselves, but merely represents the way we respond to objects. Furthermore, the judgment of taste about beauty is a merely 'aesthetic' judgment - i.e., one based on a feeling of pleasure we take in the object. The judgment of taste, on the other hand, possesses 'universal validity': to call something beautiful is implicitly to 'demand' that all others find it beautiful as well.

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