On the Necessity of Beauty

Linda Palmer

doi:10.1515/kant.2011.025

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On the Necessity of Beauty

Linda Palmer

Published/Copyright: September 5, 2011

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In the Critique of Judgment Kant argues that we may assume a certain ‘common inner sense’ on pain of skepticism. I present an interpretation of this argument, which holds that its skeptical threat involves the threat of a regress for judgment, that it argues for a principle underlying both empirical cognition and judgments of beauty, and that no ‘everything is beautiful problem’ results. This principle is essentially ‘epistemologically normative’ rather than moral, although in the end the moral raises its head. Kant's account is important not only for his aesthetic theory but for his theory of empirical cognition.

Keywords:: judgment; aesthetics; cognition; common sense

Published Online: 2011-09-05

Published in Print: 2011-September

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judgment; aesthetics; cognition; common sense