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The Significance of Beauty: Kant on Feeling and the System of the Mind
| Content Provider | Springer-eBooks |
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| Author | Matthews, Patricia M. |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. Feeling has a special role within this system in that it also provides a transition between the other two powers of the mind, cognition and desire. Matthews argues that feeling, our experience of beauty, provides a transition because it orients humans in a sensible world. Judgments of taste help overcome the difficulties that arise when rational cognitive and moral ends must be pursued in a sensible world. Matthews demonstrates how feeling, disassociated from rational activities in Kant's earlier works, is now central in reaching rational ends and understanding humans as unified rational beings. Audience: This book would be of interest to research libraries and university libraries, philosophers, historians and aestheticians. |
| File Format | |
| ISBN | 9789401589673 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | SpringerLink Springer eBooks |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Humanities / Arts History Aesthetics Philosophy of Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Book |