Aesthetic common sense and knowledge in Kant
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https://doi.org/10.5380/sk.v24i1.102109Keywords:
Kant, common sense, modality, taste, knowledge, anti-scepticismAbstract
This article examines the anti-sceptical function of aesthetic common sense, as developed in I. Kant’s Critique of the power of judgment. The main thesis argued here asserts that aesthetic common sense not only guarantees the necessity of judgements of taste, but also fulfils an anti-sceptical role that can be studied on two levels: (1) as a subjective condition for the constitution of objectivity and (2) in the reflection on particular empirical aspects. First, a reconstruction of the modal moment of judgements of taste is offered, reconciling the epistemic function of common sense with the main results of the Critique of pure reason. Second, it is shown how aesthetic common sense is a subjective condition that is presupposed in the development of new empirical concepts that allow us to know the infinite particularity and diversity of nature.
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