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I have misplaced both my book and my notes; I should find them tonight. But I wanted to go ahead and make a general comment from what I remember of my notes. ...
I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are groups that existed in the...
so then, Understanding cannot find a concept for it. The process of trying to find a concept continues. There must be a purpose, it feels like there is a...
... It looks to me that you have a good question but it is a little unclear because there are different kinds of judgments of taste through which we experience...
Hey Gang, In general, it seems like David is on the right track to answer the questions. Although I disagree that Kant gets even more trapped. I wanted to...
Sarah, I could disagree with little here until your first comment on the role of purposiveness which you claim opens a threshold for critical thinking. This...
Hi, I'm not clear reading Kant if, in the story of the man who hears a nightingale, only later to find out that it's a hoax and looses any feeling toward the...
In a message dated 8/23/2005 5:53:21 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, rcwilk@... writes: I'm not clear reading Kant if, in the story of the man who hears...
... a ... Its not an experience of beauty any longer because according to Kant, in discovering the falsehood, we have attached a concept to the given sensible...
So when you say that beauty is a universal, this just means that there exists a possibile subjective state of confusion we can all experience before we...
In a message dated 1/14/2006 12:58:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, olughod2003@... writes: beauty is a universal, although merely subjective judgment. I...
... is a universal, although merely subjective judgment. This was the twist I didn't really understand in K3. What I am hearing you now say is that while the...
Note that we employ the traditional judgmental form in our claims to beauty: X is beautiful. To be sure such claims are attended by contrary presuppositions:...
See my responses to the particulars below: ... is a universal, although merely subjective judgment. This was the twist I didn't really understand in K3. What...
The difference remains qualitatively different (between the aesthetic and the preconceptual feel toward a concept). Thus just as one can say, I thought i knew...
So this means there really is no *experience* of beauty if the beautiful object always suffers from the condition of the possibility of being falsified. There...
The "experience" of beauty remains merely subjective, a function of what one's mind does to certain material. By revealing an object of knowledge one removes...
First, you do point to something faulty in my reasoning; if i was mistaken in my aesthetic judging then it suggests that aesthetic judging, on its own terms,...
On Beauty….. Imagine going to a country, accompanied by a highly experienced linguist, and discovering that in that indigenous language there is no word...
Kant's analysis is formal, and provides the conditions for understanding that linguist as having generated an aesthetic judgment at all. What Kant wants to...
to complete the argument. the universality of my claim to the beautiful lies in my expectation that any human ought to respond, vis a vis their own faculties,...
In a message dated 1/20/2006 9:45:23 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, olughod2003@... writes: And because you share the same faculties as I do, as a human...
Are you not allowing for faculties in common. When one person makes an aesthetic judgment, X is beautiful, do you not understand what they are getting at. What...
Do you not think that such a presumption, the presumption of a communal sense ("sensus communis" in Kant's terms) is not the precondition for communication...
Do you not think that such a presumption, the presumption of a communal sense ("sensus communis" in Kant's terms) is not the precondition for communication...
Kant does several things with his aesthetic that only appear paradoxical. 1) he establishes its independence of the other (theoretical and moral) domains, and...
An invitation is open to the members of this group for a study and sustained discussion on Kant's "Critique of Judgment". I welcome all the talent and insight...
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