Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination by Mojca Küplen

Author:Mojca Küplen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The main idea that these passages suggest is that judgments of taste depend on an a priori principle and that this principle is the necessary presupposition of the purposiveness of nature. This principle states that nature is a systematic unity, and therefore amenable to our cognitive abilities. It is therefore a principle that is necessary for empirical concept acquisition. Accordingly, finding an object beautiful and finding the concept under which to subsume the particular are made in reference to the same principle, and to the same cognitive need we have, that is, to systematize experience: The self-sufficient beauty of nature reveals to us a technique of nature, which makes it possible to represent it as a system in accordance with laws the principle of which we do not encounter anywhere in our entire faculty of understanding, namely that of a purposiveness with respect to the use of the power of judgment in regard to appearances (KU 5:246, p. 129).

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