Ideas from 'Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic' by Immanuel Kant [1790], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Critiques of Aesthetic and Teleological Judgement' by Kant,Immanuel (ed/tr Meredith,James Creed) [OUP 1952,0-19-824589-0]].
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics
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Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel gave it content [Scruton]
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
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The aesthetic attitude is a matter of disinterestedness [Wollheim]
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Only rational beings can experience beauty [Scruton]
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It is hard to see why we would have developed Kant's 'disinterested' aesthetic attitude [Cochrane]
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste
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With respect to the senses, taste is an entirely personal matter
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When we judge beauty, it isn't just personal; we judge on behalf of everybody
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Saying everyone has their own taste destroys the very idea of taste
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
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Kant thinks beauty ignores its objects, because it is only 'form' engaging with mind [Cochrane]
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The beautiful is not conceptualised as moral, but it symbolises or resembles goodness [Murdoch]
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Kant saw beauty as a sort of disinterested pleasure, which has become separate from the good [Taylor,C]
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Beauty is only judged in pure contemplation, and not with something else at stake
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
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The mathematical sublime is immeasurable greatness; the dynamical sublime is overpowering [Pinkard]
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The sublime is a moral experience [Gardner]
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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 5. Objectivism in Art
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The judgement of beauty is not cognitive, but relates, via imagination, to pleasurable feelings
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Aesthetic values are not objectively valid, but we must treat them as if they are [Scruton]
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