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- Title
Beauty Makes Humanity: The Application of Kant's Aesthetic Power of Judgment in Value Choice.
- Authors
Zhouhuang, Zhengmi
- Abstract
In this paper, I use Kant's theory of the aesthetic power of judgment to solve the problem of nonmoral value choice, which Kant himself did not deal with, and prove that my reconstruction can fit into Kant's philosophy and function as a harmonization and unification of morality and happiness. First, I revisit Kant's early view of intellectualized happiness to establish the feasibility of this project in Kant's ethics. Second, by analogy with the contemplative judgment of taste and practical artistic creation, I argue for the universal communicability of pleasure in value choice from the transcendental perspective, on the one hand, and explain the various choices by individuals in reality from the empirical perspective, on the other. Ultimately, I connect the pursuit of intellectual happiness with the fulfillment of the imperfect duty of one's own perfection, through which a transition from nature to freedom can be accomplished in Kant's philosophy.
- Subjects
KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; HAPPINESS; AESTHETIC judgment; AESTHETICS; ARTISTIC creation; HUMANITY; DUTY; JUDGMENT (Psychology); ART appreciation
- Publication
Kant-Studien, 2022, Vol 113, Issue 4, p689
- ISSN
0022-8877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kant-2022-2036