PHIL 1361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Supervenience, Ibuprofen, Early Modern English

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1361
• Professor: C.Mag Uidhir

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Kant: judging beauty is a non-conceptual matter. Aesthetic judgements are essentially sensual in nature and rely on feelings of pleasure or displeasure. We don"t judge art against an idea. We instead engage in free play" of the imagination. We concentrate on the object without a goal in mind. We engage with the object for its own sake. Pure aesthetic judgement comes from a place of disinterestedness. We should not care or respond to the object as it is, it"s value, or it"s place in the world. We just engage in the aesthetic properties, nothing else. If we all engage with disinterest , then it seems we should be engaging in the same way. Beauty is not a property of the object, but we talk as if it is. We are engaging with the concept of beauty, but it is an indeterminate concept. Kant thinks that the ability to judge beauty is something we are born with.