“Nothing Can Please without Interest” Herder’s Objections against Kantian Definition of the Beautiful

The aim of this paper is to examine Kant’s definition of the beautiful as that what pleases without interest in the light of the criticisms proposed by Johann Gottfried Herder, former student of the philosopher. The discussion of these objections, contained in Kalligone, Herder’s last work, not only...

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Autor Principal: Rovira Madrid, Rogelio; Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2013
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/vniphilosophica/article/view/10641
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Sumario: The aim of this paper is to examine Kant’s definition of the beautiful as that what pleases without interest in the light of the criticisms proposed by Johann Gottfried Herder, former student of the philosopher. The discussion of these objections, contained in Kalligone, Herder’s last work, not only highlights the proper sense in which Kant understands his thesis according to which the satisfaction of the beauty is entirely disinterested, but it also let reconstruct Kant’s main argument for the mentioned thesis.