TY - JOUR
T1 - Kant and the Harmony of the Faculties
T2 - A Non-Cognitive Interpretation
AU - Kumar, Apaar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Kantian Review 2018.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - Kant interpreters are divided on the question of whether determinate cognition plays a role in the harmony of the faculties in aesthetic judgement. I provide a 'non-cognitive' interpretation that allows Kant's statements regarding judgements of natural beauty to cohere such that determinate cognition need not be taken to perform any role in such judgements. I argue that, in aesthetic harmony, judgement privileges the free activity of the imagination over the cognizing function of the understanding for the purpose of unifying the object, although the free imagination cannot violate the obscure concepts and principles of ordinary common sense.
AB - Kant interpreters are divided on the question of whether determinate cognition plays a role in the harmony of the faculties in aesthetic judgement. I provide a 'non-cognitive' interpretation that allows Kant's statements regarding judgements of natural beauty to cohere such that determinate cognition need not be taken to perform any role in such judgements. I argue that, in aesthetic harmony, judgement privileges the free activity of the imagination over the cognizing function of the understanding for the purpose of unifying the object, although the free imagination cannot violate the obscure concepts and principles of ordinary common sense.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1369415417000358
DO - 10.1017/S1369415417000358
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042535122
SN - 1369-4154
VL - 23
SP - 1
EP - 26
JO - Kantian Review
JF - Kantian Review
IS - 1
ER -