Kant and Beauty 5

Judgments of beauty involve reference to the idea of necessity, in the following sense: in taking my judgment of beauty to be universally valid, I take it, not that everyone who perceives the object will share my pleasure in it and (relatedly) agree with my judgment, but that everyone ought to do so. I take it, then, that my pleasure stands in a “necessary” relation to the object which elicits it, where the necessity here can be described as normative. But, as in the case of universal validity, the necessity is not based on concepts or rules.

Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, Fourth Moment (§18-22)