The Significance of Beauty - Kant on Feeling and the System of the Mind (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)

In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. Feeling has a special role within this system in that it also provides a transition between the other two powers of the mind, cognition and desire. Matthews argues that feeling, our experience of beauty, provides a transition because it orients humans in a sensible world. Judgments of taste help overcome the difficulties that arise when rational cognitive and moral ends must be pursued in a sensible world. Matthews demonstrates how feeling, disassociated from rational activities in Kant's earlier works, is now central in reaching rational ends and understanding humans as unified rational beings. Audience: This book would be of interest to research libraries and university libraries, philosophers, historians and aestheticians.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	The New Synthese Historical Library, 44
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	P. M. Matthews
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	243
Edition:	1997 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4764-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	0-7923-4764-1
Barcode:	9780792347644

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