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4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

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Kant's Definition of Beauty

Kant: Beauty can't be defined by means of concepts. He then distinguishes between what he calls free beauty and dependent beauty. This seems to suggest that you can make some judgments of taste based on concepts, namely, judgments of dependent beauty. And if there's a different kind of evaluation here, it's combining a judgment of goodness with a judgment about the things they are.

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