Full Idea
The Kantian notion of disinterest isolated aesthetic value from the rest of our lives. It is hard to understand why we should have developed a tendency that is detached from our everyday practical purposes.
Gist of Idea
It is hard to see why we would have developed Kant's 'disinterested' aesthetic attitude
Source
comment on Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic [1790], §2) by Tom Cochrane - The Aesthetic Value of the World 1.4
Book Reference
Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.19
A Reaction
Cochrane always seeks an evolutionary framework for accounts of aesthetics, and I agree with him. That doesn't devalue them. The best things in life, like piano music, are obviously offshoots of things which evolved for other reasons.