Kant, Critique Of The Power Of Judgement

In comparing the beautiful with the agreeable, only with regard to the agreeable can the principle >Everyone has his own= taste (of the senses) be valid. However, if something is pronounced beautiful, than the judger expects or rather demands the same satisfaction of others; he judges not merely for himself, but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things. With beauty, it cannot

be said that Aeveryone has his special taste,@ for then there is no taste at all.

Kant goes on that being able to communicate one=s state of mind, even if only with regards to cognition, carries a pleasure with it, probably from the natural tendency of human beings to socialbility. This pleasure or displeasure the judgment carries with it is expected in everyone else, as if it were a property of the object. However, even though this universality may make beauty feel as a property of the object, beauty is nothing by itself, without relation to the feeling of the subject. The sensation that is universally communicable is the effect of the facilitated play of both powers of the mind- imagination and understanding, enlivened through mutual agreement.

In the judgment of taste, if the pleasure in the object came before the judging than the agreeableness in sensation would h

Some topics in this essay:
Judgement Moment, judgment taste, free play, pleasure displeasure, imagination understanding, property object, universal satisfaction,