Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste
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Samuel A. Stoner
Abstract
Though the notion of common-sense (Gemeinsinn) plays an important role in Kant’s aesthetic theory, it is not immediately clear what Kant means by this term. This essay works to clarify the role that common-sense plays in the logic of Kant’s argument. My interpretive hypothesis is that a careful examination of the way common-sense functions in Kant’s account of judgments of taste can help explain what this notion means. I argue that common-sense names the capacity to discern the relation between the cognitive faculties by means of a feeling, and I conclude that this understanding of common-sense lays the groundwork for an account of the unity of judgments of taste. I conclude that attending to Kant’s notion of common-sense is especially important because it highlights the anthropological significance of Kant’s account of beauty.
© 2019 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- List of Contributors
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- Game between Arch-enemies: An Interpretation of the Free and Harmonious Play of Faculties
- Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime?
- Aesthetic Judgment as Parasitic on Cognition
- Performative versus Orientational Hermeneutics. Gadamer’s Criticism of Kant’s Sensus Communis and its Hermeneutical Rehabilitation by Makkreel
- Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste
- Kant’s Account of the Sublime as Critique
- List of Contributors
- Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2020, 2021 and 2022
