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On Moment of Quality of Aesthetical Judgement in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2014, (17), pp.28~49
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Nam Jung Woo 1

1순천향대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Disinterestedness in Kant’s critical philosophy is served as the qualitative moment that functions as a starting point for the judgement of taste. This moment is an aesthetical attitude of the cognitive subject that is not interested in whether the aesthetical object really is. And through having the attitude the subject can be aware of itself as one and united being of its nature and freedom. The moment of disinterestedness functions as to justify the subjective-universal claim of the aesthetical judgement in the moment of quantity, the foundation of purposiveness concept in the moment of relation, and the functional basis of sensus communis in the moment of mode. And moreover the moment of quality makes it possible both the judgement of sublimity and the indirect interest that produces genius artwork. In this way the moment of disinterestedness penetrates the aesthetical in general as well as the subjective universality. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that disinterestedness is a key concept to understand the aesthetical in general in Kant’s critical philosophy and to ascertain the meaning of art and it’s appreciation.

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