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Synthetic a priority of Judgement of Taste in Kant's Critical Philosophy - in its relation to the judgement of object and of action -

Nam Jung Woo 1

1동국대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Both of the judgements, of object which legislate the world of nature through understanding and of action which legislate the world of freedom through practical reason, are synthetic a priori judgement. Demonstrating synthetic a priority of those judgement, had Kant established the possibility of new metaphysics in each of worlds, namely, of nature and freedom. But these two different world still remain as different domain that are dominated by totally different two laws, that are law of nature and of freedom. Kant had made an attempt to mediate these two different laws dominating metaphysics through the reflective faculty of judgement in his third critique, the Critique of Judgement. This faculty of judgement, which also has transcendental formality like other cognitive faculties of subject, legislates by mediating the domain of nature and freedom through concept of purposiveness. By showing this mechanism of the faculty, had he thought that would be possible to establish on the one and only ground of new metaphysics. In this respect, must the judgements of taste, which are made by reflective faculty of judgement, also have the synthetic a priority. Therefore a judgement of taste is synthetic a priori judgement, which is made about the accompanied feelings of pleasure or unpleasure when judgement of object or action is on making, and its concept of predicate is of cocepts of taste. These judgements are a priori because their subject terms are originated in the transcendental mechanism of the relation of imagination and understanding, and are also synthetic because their predicate terms are sythesized by the concepts which is delivered through the effects of reflective faculty of judgement. A remained problem is of that how judgement of taste could get the universal validity. Kant had tried to solve passively by choosing the way of that the 'common senses' of the cognitive subjects which communicate those synthetic a priority of the judgements of tastes.

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