Judgments of Taste Are Based on Pleasure Not Concepts

He says that even if you know what kind of thing it is, to make a judgment of taste, you've got to leave that knowledge aside. So in his example, a botanist who knows that a flower is the reproductive organ of a plant doesn't make his judgments about whether the flower is beautiful based on that knowledge. To judge something good, he says, you have to apply the concept of what it's intended to be before you can judge it to be good. He contrasts this with pleasure in beauty, or pleasure in the good and pleasure in the agreeable. This freedom from concepts makes it different from pleasure in theGood but does make it similar to pleasure inWhat he calls