Kulenkampff, Jens: "Mit dem Schönen ist es ganz anders bewandt."Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritik der ästhetischen Urteilskraft
"It is quite different with the beautiful." But what about it, then? According to Kant, this can only be revealed by analyzing the judgment by which we attribute beauty. Tracing the often rocky path of this analysis, fraught with all sorts of pitfalls, in order to see how Kant arrives at the concept of beauty as a form of purposiveness without purpose, and what exactly this concept means, is still very rewarding. However, in doing so, it is important to defend Kant against himself and to rid the core of his aesthetics of a great deal of incidental material that has nothing to do with the matter at hand. – In an appendix to this discussion of the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment“, the author demostrates the close connection that exists between Kant's text and Hume's treatise "On the Standard of Taste".
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