Kant and the general of interested- aesthetic judgments

Subject Areas : Epistemological researches

ًRozita  Rashedi ¹ (Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran)
Mohammad  Shokry ² (Assistant professor at Department Of philosophy,Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University ,Tehran, Iran)
Ali  Moradkhani ³ (Associate Professor at Department Of philosophy,Tehran North Branch, Islamic Azad University ,Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2022-02-07 Accepted : 2022-04-27 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: taste, Kant, subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, Kant's Theory of interest,

Abstract :

Kant considers the nature of rules of the taste to be interested, but at the same time believes that an objective basis can be found for the totality of these rulings in the power of judgment. First, given the coexistence of subjective and intersubjective elements in Kant's theory of interest, what relation does he establish between the subjective and the intersubjective judgments of taste? To answer this question, in the first part, while examining the logical features of the aesthetical sentence, we show that this sentence, in his view, is an aesthetic sentence that is issued in complete freedom and autonomy of the subject and by the other has a certain kind of general validity in its content. This kind of general validity, since it is purely based on transcendental structures which are common among all judgmental subjects, also has an intersubjective aspect, which Kant calls the names of subjective generality, aesthetic generality, and universal validity.  Second, how does Kant strike a relation between the subjective and the intersubjective? To answer this question, in the second part, we argue that Kant, although he believes in the subjectivity of the judgment of taste, considers this subjectivity to be of a special kind, which is the other aspect of intersubjectivity. For this purpose, we first try to explain the meaning of the subjectivity of the judgment of interest, and then to clarify the intersubjective aspect of this meaning. Finally, we show that Kant, based on the intersubjective validity he finds in the judgment of interest, considers the faculty of interest as a capacity for empathy between subjects and to bring them out of isolation.

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