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4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

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The Relationship Between Perceptions and Concepts in Logical Judgments

When we judge something to be beautiful, it's not because we've perceived a property called beauty in the object. It is on the basis of a feeling the object gives us, gives us, a feeling of pleasure. That makes them different from what he calls variously logical judgments or theoretical judgments which do attribute a property to the object. Beauty is not a property of the beautiful object. And it's for that reason that judgments of taste are aesthetic judgments. They have, as he puts it, subjective grounds.

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