Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Judgement

includes index and biblioraphy

A guide to the entire third Critique Kant`s philosophical style The historical composition of the Critique of the Power of Judgment Eighteenth-century aesthetic theory prior to Kant The pleasure in pure beauty (||i-22; ¿¿30-40) The first logical moment:judgments of pure beauty are aesthetic and disinterested (jji-f) The second logical moment:judgments of pure beauty are grounded upon a universal feeling of approval (ff6-y) The third logical moment:judgments of pure beauty reflect upon how an object`s configuration appears to have been the result of an intelligent design fffio-r/J The fourth logical moment: the universal feeling of approval that grounds judgments of pure beauty carries the force of necessity (ff 18-22) The Deduction (Legitimation) ofjudgments of Pure Beauty (ffjo-joj 2 The sublime and the infinite (¿¿23-29) Sublimity is subordinate to beauty The infinite magnitude of the mathematically sublime The overwhelming power of the dynamically sublime 3 The fine arts and creative genius (¿¿41-54) Artistic beauty vs. natural beauty Kant`s theory of genius Aesthetic ideas and the beauty of fine art Aesthetic ideas and natural beauty The division of the fine arts 4 Beauty`s confirmation of science and morality (¿¿55-60) The antinomy of taste Aesthetic ideas, genius, and the supersensible substrate of nature Aesthetic ideas, genius, and the supersensible substrate of the human personality The unitary idea of the supersensible The subjectivity of the a priori principle of judgment Beauty as a symbol of morality Crossing the "incalculable gulf" between nature and morality Beauty as a symbol of scientific completenes 5 Living organisms, God, and intelligent design Natural purposes (ff6i-68) The compatibility of science and morality (j g-?8) The moral argument for Cod`s existence ( 9-91) Conclusion: the music of the spheres and the idealization of reason