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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A judgment of beauty claims subjective universality—rightful agreement from others—without relying on a determinate concept or proof.

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Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2.2 Universality and §2.4 Necessity
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