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- Title
Placing Ugliness in Kant's Third Critique: A Reply to Paul Guyer.
- Authors
Phillips, James
- Abstract
Kant's treatment of pure aesthetic judgement can ignore ugliness, since an analytic of the ugly, according to a recent essay by Paul Guyer, uncovers the aesthetic impurity of the criteria against which we judge ugliness. Free beauty, as Kant expounds it, does not admit a contrary, and hence a Kantian account of ugliness, such as Guyer's, must look elsewhere in order to scrabble together terms for its definition. Yet if we recognise the ugly by its unsuitability as an object of pure contemplation, then we have made a disinterested judgement of free ugliness. The pleasure of the harmony of the faculties, which is a pleasure in the way the world and our faculties fit together, observes itself contradicted by ugliness.
- Subjects
UGLINESS; LEGAL judgments; AESTHETICS; CONTEMPLATION; EXPECTATION (Psychology)
- Publication
Kant-Studien, 2011, Vol 102, Issue 3, p385
- ISSN
0022-8877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/KANT.2011.027