Kant's Solution to the Problematic Features of Judgments of Taste

Kant explains the problematic feature of judgments of taste, which is their subjective universality. Judgments of taste are subjective in the sense that they are not based on concepts from the perception of an object, but rather on some fact about the judge, such as pleasure. Pleasure itself is not based on concepts. Judgments of taste also have the feature of universality, meaning that the judge believes everyone else ought to agree. Kant argues that judgments of taste have this feature because they are based on disinterested pleasure and because people argue over whether things are beautiful, implying that everyone ought to agree. Kant believes that this universality explains why we talk about beauty as a property of objects, despite it not being a property. He also discusses how our pleasure in beauty arises from the harmonious free play of our imagination and understanding, without the application of concepts to what we perceive.