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Perspective voyage · 1790

Kant — Beauty asks for agreement without proof

Why can “I like it” carry the expectation that you too ought to find it beautiful?

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Kant's pure judgment of beauty rests on disinterested pleasure rather than desire to possess or use the object.

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  • Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §2.1 The judgment of beauty: disinterestedness

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1790 CE · 1790

The third Critique joins personal pleasure to the possibility of shared judgment.

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