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[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics ]

Full Idea

Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel endowed it with content.

Gist of Idea

Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel gave it content

Source

report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic [1790]) by Roger Scruton - Recent Aesthetics in England and America p.3

Book Ref

Scruton,Roger: 'The Aesthetic Understanding' [Methuen 1983], p.3


The 15 ideas from 'Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic'

Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel gave it content [Kant, by Scruton]
The aesthetic attitude is a matter of disinterestedness [Kant, by Wollheim]
Only rational beings can experience beauty [Kant, by Scruton]
Kant thinks beauty ignores its objects, because it is only 'form' engaging with mind [Cochrane on Kant]
The beautiful is not conceptualised as moral, but it symbolises or resembles goodness [Kant, by Murdoch]
Kant saw beauty as a sort of disinterested pleasure, which has become separate from the good [Kant, by Taylor,C]
The mathematical sublime is immeasurable greatness; the dynamical sublime is overpowering [Kant, by Pinkard]
Aesthetic values are not objectively valid, but we must treat them as if they are [Kant, by Scruton]
It is hard to see why we would have developed Kant's 'disinterested' aesthetic attitude [Cochrane on Kant]
The sublime is a moral experience [Kant, by Gardner]
The judgement of beauty is not cognitive, but relates, via imagination, to pleasurable feelings [Kant]
Beauty is only judged in pure contemplation, and not with something else at stake [Kant]
With respect to the senses, taste is an entirely personal matter [Kant]
When we judge beauty, it isn't just personal; we judge on behalf of everybody [Kant]
Saying everyone has their own taste destroys the very idea of taste [Kant]