This essay offers a conceptualist reading of Kant to address two central issues in Critique of Judgment:what is the nature of the judgment of beauty,and how it bears on the a priori principle of judgment.Challenging t...This essay offers a conceptualist reading of Kant to address two central issues in Critique of Judgment:what is the nature of the judgment of beauty,and how it bears on the a priori principle of judgment.Challenging the popular subjectivist approach which conceives Kant's judgment of beauty as a nonconceptual mental state,I argue that the judgment of beauty in Kant is a fullfledged judgment whose conceptual contents are aesthetic appreciation and criticism,and that the principle of subjective purposiveness in judgment refers to a generic concept instead of a mental episode.My view has the advantage over the subjectivism of both preserving the intuitive idea that aesthetic judgments have rich conceptual contents,and of avoiding the theoretical difficulties which subjectivism suffers.To sharpen my focus,I will present a sophisticated subjectivist reading of Kant's aesthetics given by Hannah Ginsborg in section 2,and in section 3 give my criticism of Ginsborg's theory,which also reveals a fundamental limit of the subjectivist approach in general.Finally,in section 4 I give my own conceptualist reading of Kant's aesthetics and respond to potential challenges from the subjectivist camp.展开更多
Yan Hong (front, third from the right), Mr Leo Passage, President of Pivot Point (front, second from the right) and Peng Jinzhao, President of Pivot Point—Asia Region (front, fourth from the right) with the students ...Yan Hong (front, third from the right), Mr Leo Passage, President of Pivot Point (front, second from the right) and Peng Jinzhao, President of Pivot Point—Asia Region (front, fourth from the right) with the students of the Sichuan Pivot Point Beauty Institute.展开更多
EVER since ancient times Shanghai people have pursued beauty. The Shanghai History Museum, mounted an exhibition entitled "Spectacular Garments, Cultural Relics and Documents of Modern Shanghai" which certai...EVER since ancient times Shanghai people have pursued beauty. The Shanghai History Museum, mounted an exhibition entitled "Spectacular Garments, Cultural Relics and Documents of Modern Shanghai" which certainly proved this point. This exhibit showed that throughout Shanghai’s long history, dress and personal adomment have been important to the residents. During the展开更多
Hegel was highly influenced by Plato’s philosophy,as appears in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy.The German philosopher rightly attributed to Plato an“aesthetic”theory meant as a search for the meaning of ...Hegel was highly influenced by Plato’s philosophy,as appears in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy.The German philosopher rightly attributed to Plato an“aesthetic”theory meant as a search for the meaning of Beauty(the idea of the Beautiful).For Kant the Sublime played the same role that Beauty did for the Greek philosopher,leading the human soul to grasp the super-sensible,as we read in his Critique of the Judgment of Taste.Contrary to what happened in Plato,in Hegel’s own aesthetic theory,the investigation was not focused on Beauty in general,but on artistic Beauty,the characters of the beautiful work of art.If Plato and Hegel highlight the dialectical-metaphysical function of Beauty,the judgment that they express on art is very different.However,they share an important conception:Beauty is as an intermediate and connecting reality,that functions as a link between thought and sensitivity.展开更多
文摘This essay offers a conceptualist reading of Kant to address two central issues in Critique of Judgment:what is the nature of the judgment of beauty,and how it bears on the a priori principle of judgment.Challenging the popular subjectivist approach which conceives Kant's judgment of beauty as a nonconceptual mental state,I argue that the judgment of beauty in Kant is a fullfledged judgment whose conceptual contents are aesthetic appreciation and criticism,and that the principle of subjective purposiveness in judgment refers to a generic concept instead of a mental episode.My view has the advantage over the subjectivism of both preserving the intuitive idea that aesthetic judgments have rich conceptual contents,and of avoiding the theoretical difficulties which subjectivism suffers.To sharpen my focus,I will present a sophisticated subjectivist reading of Kant's aesthetics given by Hannah Ginsborg in section 2,and in section 3 give my criticism of Ginsborg's theory,which also reveals a fundamental limit of the subjectivist approach in general.Finally,in section 4 I give my own conceptualist reading of Kant's aesthetics and respond to potential challenges from the subjectivist camp.
文摘Yan Hong (front, third from the right), Mr Leo Passage, President of Pivot Point (front, second from the right) and Peng Jinzhao, President of Pivot Point—Asia Region (front, fourth from the right) with the students of the Sichuan Pivot Point Beauty Institute.
文摘EVER since ancient times Shanghai people have pursued beauty. The Shanghai History Museum, mounted an exhibition entitled "Spectacular Garments, Cultural Relics and Documents of Modern Shanghai" which certainly proved this point. This exhibit showed that throughout Shanghai’s long history, dress and personal adomment have been important to the residents. During the
文摘Hegel was highly influenced by Plato’s philosophy,as appears in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy.The German philosopher rightly attributed to Plato an“aesthetic”theory meant as a search for the meaning of Beauty(the idea of the Beautiful).For Kant the Sublime played the same role that Beauty did for the Greek philosopher,leading the human soul to grasp the super-sensible,as we read in his Critique of the Judgment of Taste.Contrary to what happened in Plato,in Hegel’s own aesthetic theory,the investigation was not focused on Beauty in general,but on artistic Beauty,the characters of the beautiful work of art.If Plato and Hegel highlight the dialectical-metaphysical function of Beauty,the judgment that they express on art is very different.However,they share an important conception:Beauty is as an intermediate and connecting reality,that functions as a link between thought and sensitivity.
