On "Beauty As The Symbol Of Morality"

"Beauty as the symbol of morality" not only generalizes the subject of the book the Critique of Judgment , but also embodies the construction ideal of Kant's judgment philosophy system. Under the background of philosophy anthropology, Kant sets up a complete philosophy system by constructing a bridge between the nature and the freedom, and gets the topic " beauty as symbol of morality " :The end result of aesthetics heads for morality, and mankind will be headed for freedom from nature by aesthetics. The intermediary role of the Critique of Judgment and its links with epistemology and ethics, means that the book is ,theoretically, the expansion of the Critique of Pure Reason , but services the morality state that the Critique of Practical Reason studies ultimately. As a result," beauty as symbol of morality " is, by all means , a thread of the Critique of Judgment , and the conclusion of that book. Reflective judgment takes "the person be an end purpose" as groundwork to build a bridge connecting nature and freedom, thus the reasonableness of the nature is not "Mr. establish" of the other shore any more, but a current thing. The aesthetic presentation theory ,as the core of the subjective initiative theory of Kant esthetics, has filled the immense gulf between subject and object. Kant, taking human as base and civilization as point of departure, holding history accumulation, points out that subjective purposiveness , as a life form, is the medium linking widespread internal mankind freedom and externals of morality, namely beauty is embodiment of morality. The pleasure of taste of beauty is given a cultural content and then it communicates mutually with morality, owing to sense and reasonableness participating secretly; Meanwhile, it is connected with morality by disinterested linking feeling of freedom. In the beauty, accessory beauty seems important particularly. It inclines to morality with objective purposiveness. The ideal of beauty is embodied in accessory beauty. We can see the relations of the ideal of beauty and morality manifest by detecting person's purpose. In addition, fine art also belongs to...