ENGL 3045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Practical Reason, Categorical Imperative, Antithesis
11 Apr 2016
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When you engage in poetry, you engage in free play of imagination (no vested interest in anything, mind can run) In richter: a critic of judgment (singular, aesthetic) First critique he wrote was critique of pure reason (analyzes principles that define the concepts whereby we can experience and understand the world around us; focus on space and time, defines understanding under causal necessity) Second critique was a critique of practical reason (analyzes the principles that define the concepts of moral obligation and duty; categorical imperative, universal law, all the moral stuff) Third critique (in richter) is a critique of judgment (art does not offer us knowledge of the world when seen aesthetically and doesn"t offer morality) Things to you are either pleasant or unpleasant. Practical questions have to do with viewing an object as an object. It"s its own thing it doesn"t bare on anything in my life internal coherence self sufficient this is an aesthetic object.
