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- Title
THE ROLE OF SYMBOLIC PRESENTATION IN KANT'S THEORY OF TASTE.
- Authors
Rueger, Alexander; Evren, Şahan
- Abstract
Beauty, or at least natural beauty, is famously a symbol of the morally good in Kant's theory of taste. Natural beauty is also, we argue, a symbol of the systematicity of nature. This symbolic connection of beauty and systematicity in nature sheds light on the relation between the principles underlying the use of reflecting judgement. The connection also motivates a more general interpretive proposal: the fact that the imagination can symbolize ideas plays a crucial role in the theory of taste; it is the mechanism that underlies pure judgements of taste, the operation by which the imagination `schematizes without a concept'.
- Subjects
AESTHETICS; PERSONAL beauty; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; CRITIQUE of Reason (Book); CRITIQUE of Judgement (Book); PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2005, Vol 45, Issue 3, p229
- ISSN
0007-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/aesthj/ayi035