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    Kant's pure judgment of taste involves an experience of b... — Carmelics
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    Kant's pure judgment of taste involves an experience of beauty that is pleasurable without meaning anything or conveying any truth

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    • 1.In Kant's pure judgment of taste, purposiveness without purpose describes a subjective free harmony of imagination and understanding
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    • 2.This free harmony does not by itself represent anything at all
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    • 1.Hegel argues in the Lectures on Aesthetics that beauty is the sensuous shining of the Idea, making truth-content constitutive of aesthetic experience rather than incidental.
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    • 2.If Hegel's critique is correct that Kant's formalism artificially severs feeling from conceptual content, then 'purposiveness without purpose' already smuggles in implicit rational meaning.
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    • 3.The 'free harmony' of imagination and understanding in Kant presupposes the very cognitive faculties whose lawfulness expresses rational structure, not mere pleasurable sensation.
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    • 1.Kant himself identifies beauty as the symbol of morality in §59 of the Critique of Judgment, grounding aesthetic experience in moral ideas.
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    • 2.A symbolic relation to moral concepts constitutes a form of meaning, undermining the claim that pure beauty conveys no truth whatsoever.
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    In 1791, Moritz dedicated a review of the Essay on Taste by “our mutual friend” Herz to Salomon Maimon, another Jewish intellectual who had arisen to prominence in Berlin from beginnings even more unpromising than those of Mendelssohn and Herz. Here he manifests his own allegiance to Wolff and Baumgarten, arguing that his conception of beauty as the internal perfection of a work of art as it strikes the senses and imagination is essentially the same as their conception of beauty as “sensible per
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