Critique of Aesthetic Judgement by Kant Immanuel 1724-1804

Author:Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Literature
Publisher: The University of Adelaide Library
Published: 2014-02-26T10:31:10.978895+00:00

DEFINITION OF THE BEAUTIFUL DERIVED FROM THIS THIRD MOMENT.

Beauty is the form of finality in an object, so far as perceived in it apart from the representation of an end.11

11As telling against this explanation, the instance may be adduced that there are things in which we see a form suggesting adaptation to an end, without any end being cognized in them-as, for example, the stone implements frequently obtained from sepulchral tumuli and supplied with a hole, as if for [inserting] a handle; and although these by their shape manifestly indicate a finality, the end of which is unknown, they are not on that account described as beautiful. But the very fact of their being regarded as art-products involves an immediate recognition that their shape is attributed to some purpose or other and to a definite end. For this reason there is no immediate delight whatever in their contemplation. A flower, on the other hand, such as a tulip, is regarded as beautiful, because we meet with a certain finality in its perception, which, in our estimate of it, is not referred to any end whatever.

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