The Disinterested Doctrine

One way of reading what he says seems to suggest that you have to be in difference to the thing's existence in order to judge whether it's beautiful. Another way of taking what he says is the more plausible claim that you can't base your pleasure on any desire you have for it to exist or not. So this is also something that makes pleasure and beauty different from other kinds of pleasure. But as I say, there's something he definitely says that makes it sound like you have to remove all desire for its existence to judge whetherit's beautiful. That sort of claim is what a lot of people have attacked. And it does sound like he's saying that at one point. Okay.