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On The Possibility Of Congenital Aesthetic Judgment In Kant 's Philosophy

Posted on:2016-06-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330461985851Subject:Foreign philosophy
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In the three Critiques of Kant’s critical philosophy, the《Critique of Judgment》joins the《 Critique of Pure Reason 》about the epistemology and the《 Critique of Practical Reason》about the moral and ethical and religious, putting up a bridge of transition for them. The main part of the 《Critique of Judgment》 is “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” which enquiries the aesthetic issue and, provides the basic principle and a priori principle for aesthetic judgment, it is the foundation of the second part of "The Critique of Teleological Judgment". Human knowledge has a priori principles, such as category and human’s self-consciousness of apperception,giving human knowledge a priori basis; Human moral practice also has its own a priori principles, such as the ability of free will and the will of self-discipline,giving human behavior moral basis. So if human feeling of pleasure and displeasure also have a priori principle? In other words, if human taste or aesthetic ability also has its a priori principles? The "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment" is studing the core problem,why do people’s aesthetic judgments require a universal validity?When I am perceiving a representation of an object and have a pleasant feeling of no interest, I refer this pleasure directly to the represention of the object, thus forming a aesthetic judgment "This object is beautiful".This is no controversial,but there is a contradictory that why I think or require everyone must have a pleasure when perceiving the representation of the object? In other words,I require everyone should have a common pleasure with me when perceiving the representation of the object. Is this request reasonable and does it have a priori basis? Kant think the "Common Sense" idea in the subjective principle of our general cognition is the a priori principle of the pleasure. The "Common Sense" idea is a mental state which is produced by a free harmony of the imagination and understanding of our representative ability which are used to represent the object. I devote myself to enquiring if the "common sense" as the a priori principle of aesthetic judgment is possible in Kant’s philosophy.
Keywords/Search Tags:aesthetic judgment, common sense, free harmony, universal validity
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