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4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

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Is There a Judgment of Taste?

Kant: Everything with certain property p, so curviness or squareness or unity in variety is beautiful. Second premise, this object in front of us has this property, squareness, curviness, unity in variety, whatever. Therefore, conclusion, this object is beautiful. And there are no laws of taste, where that means something that can function as the first premise of an argument that supports a judgment of Taste. But if judgments of taste aren't based on concepts and are only based on pleasure, then you cannot do that.

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