The significance of beauty : Kant on feeling and the system of the mind /
In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. Feeling has a special role within this system in that it...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
1997.
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| Series: | New synthese historical library ;
44. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. Feeling has a special role within this system in that it also provides a transition between the other two powers of the mind, cognition and desire. Matthews argues that feeling, our experience of beauty, provides a transition because it orients humans in a sensible world. Judgments of taste help overcome the difficulties that arise when rational cognitive and moral ends must be pursued in a sensible world. Matthews demonstrates how feeling, disassociated from rational activities in Kant's earlier works, is now central in reaching rational ends and understanding humans as unified rational beings. Audience: This book would be of interest to research libraries and university libraries, philosophers, historians and aestheticians. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis--University of Iowa. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401589673 (electronic bk.) 9401589674 (electronic bk.) |