KANTThe Objective Nature of the Subjective Experience of Beauty

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The analytic + the aesthetic constitutes an object. Both are needed, neither by itself is

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Part of the concept of an object is that it is a thing in itself— a Ding an Sich

that exists outside the phenoumenal, in the noumenal

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In this technical sense judgements about beauty are

intuitive, aesthetic, and non-

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intuitionJudgements about facts, in contrast,

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Such judgements are objective in that they have four conceptual vectors: quality,

quantity, relation, and modality

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Judgements about beauty have these

four vectors but without conceptual

or objective grounding

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Definition of the Beautiful derived from the First Moment: Taste is the faculty of estimating an object or

a mode of representation by means of a delight or aversion apart from any interest. The object of such a

delight is called beautiful.

FIRST MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of Quality.

The judgement of taste is aesthetic.

Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Second Moment:

The beautiful is that which, apart from a concept, pleases universally.

SECOND MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of Quantity.

The beautiful is that which, apart from concepts, is represented as the Object of a universal delight.

Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Third Moment:

Beauty is the form of finality in an object, so far as perceived in it apart from the representation of an end.

THIRD MOMENT. Of Judgements of Taste: Moment of the relation of the Ends brought under Review in such

Judgements.

Finality in general.

Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Fourth Moment:

The beautiful is that which, apart from a concept, is cognized as object of a necessary delight.

FOURTH MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of the Modality of the Delight in the Object.

Nature of the modality in a judgement of taste.

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