Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD Candidate, University of Religions and Denominations
2 Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Art Department, Bu Ali Sina University
Abstract
Kant organizes his analysis in terms of four moments of the judgement of taste, each of which is supposed to contribute something essential to the complete exposition of the beautiful in "Critique of Judgement". He in the third moment based on the key concept analysis of "purposiveness" reaches to beauty definition "a purposiveness without a purpose" (subjective purposiveness). Below this moment, two concepts of "dependent beauty" and "the ideal of beauty" also arises that aesthetic judgement in both of them is based on objective purposiveness and a concept indicating nature of the object and the perfection of the object which is considered as default for judgement. This default in dependent beauty is perfection of the object and in the ideal of beauty is a concept from the sum of the rational idea and the aesthetic normal idea, but this point of view is in contradiction with the principle of Kant's aesthetic, which judgement of the beautiful just relies on the subjective purposiveness. This article reviewing the concept of purposiveness and the type of subjective purposiveness in the ideal of beauty and dependent beauty and seeking to explain how the aesthetic value of these concepts and reviewing difference between these two concepts and their similarities to determine the position of these two concepts in Kant's philosophy.
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