Immanuel Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and teleology. Like many Enlightenment thinkers, he holds our mental faculty of reason in high esteem; he believes that it is our reason that invests the world we experience with structure.

2005年7月2日 · In claiming that judgments of beauty have both sets of features, Kant can be seen as reacting equally against the two main opposing traditions in eighteenth-century aesthetics: the “empiricist” tradition of aesthetics represented by Hume, Hutcheson and Burke, on which a judgment of taste is an expression of feeling without cognitive content ...

2021年8月28日 · Despite his seminal work in ethics and his profound influence on modern life, one of Immanuel Kant’s greatest works was written on aesthetics. The work is called the Critique of Judgement, and it outlines a totally new horizon of philosophical aesthetics.

2023年5月20日 · Immanuel Kant's aesthetic theory is a key concept in philosophical thought. Kant's views on beauty and taste were heavily influenced by his belief that knowledge is only possible through experience. He argued that beauty and taste are subjective, personal experiences and that it is impossible to judge either objectively.

2015年2月21日 · To begin the journey of understanding Kant’s paradoxical view on how we find the beautiful, it’s important to first grasp the cognitive procedure by which Kant believes we can determine what is truly beautiful at once for us individually and for all.

In this article I will limit myself to this critical aesthetics of Kant. But I will also discuss the ugly and the possibility of beauty in mathematics and see whether Kant's theory can...

significance of aesthetic experience, and given the condition that aesthetic experi-ence be "pure" experience, the subjectivity and universality, the contingency and neces-sity of aesthetic judgments, and the emotive but disinterested state of mind in the aesthe-tic subject are seen as logical deductions. Or

(1901), 19-40 and 206-243, believes that Kant's aesthetic of form and his aesthetic of content-affekt, though in embryo, directly influenced modern music-aesthetics and did so indirectly by means of Schopenhauer's emphasis on will (desire) as denying aesthetic and by means of the synthesis-aesthetic of Hugo Riemann. C.

Kant divided the kinds of aesthetic response into responses to the Beautiful and the Sublime. The one represents a pleasure in order, harmony, delicacy and the like. The other is a response of awe before the infinite or the overwhelming. While the beautiful presents the appearance of form, the sublime may often seem formless.

2003年2月28日 · In the first part of this essay, we will look at the particularly rich account of judgments of beauty given to us by Immanuel Kant. The notion of a “judgment of taste” is central to Kant’s account and also to virtually everyone working in traditional aesthetics; so we begin by examining Kant’s characterization of the judgment of taste.