Feeling the life of the mind

mere judging, feeling, and judgment

Fiona Hughes

pp. 381-405

in: The Palgrave Kant handbook, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

Hughes argues that in the Analytic of the Beautiful Kant introduces an account of feeling that operates as a non-cognitive and yet reflective form of awareness. The range of modes of awareness – which hitherto comprised sensible intuitions, concepts of understanding and conceptually determining judgments, but also ideas and principles of reason – is extended to include a new distinctively aesthetic type of judgments that have feeling as their ground. Crucially, Kant views this development as the condition of the integrity of his critical system.

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Kant Immanuel