The natural existence of beauty is evidence that nature is amenable to human objectives, because the experience of beauty fulfills our most basic cognitive objective in an unexpected way.
A goal related to how our minds work and what we're trying to learn or understand about the world.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
natural existence(as used in the philosophy of nature)
Things that occur or exist in the physical world on their own, without being created by humans.
Kant’s fourth connection between the aesthetic and the ethical lies in his theory of the “intellectual interest” in the beautiful. Here Kant argues that although our basic pleasure in a beautiful object must be independent of any antecedent interest in its existence, we may add a further layer of pleasure to that basic experience if the existence of beautiful objects suggests some more generally pleasing fact about our situation in the world. Kant’s claim is that since it is of interest to prac