domenica 2 maggio 2010

Kant and Beauty 4

Unlike judgments of the good, judgments of the beautiful do not presuppose an end or purpose [Zweck] which the object is taken to satisfy. Because this representation of purposiveness does not involve the ascription of an end, the purposiveness is represented “merely formal purposiveness” or “the form of purposiveness.” that is perceived both in the object itself and in the activity of imagination and understanding in their engagement with the object.

Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, Third Moment (§§10-17)

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