Talk:Critique of Judgement
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"Judgement" is spelled wrong! Supposed to be "judgment."
Judgement is the UK spelling for non-legal uses of the term. Judgment is the US spelling. See the spelling note in the entry for judgment.
I've expanded the aesthetics section of this substantially, but the teleology section could sitll use some major work. --Snowspinner
[edit] Kant's Major Concern: Subjective is not Objective
According to Schopenhauer's Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy, Kant's main interest was not with the beautiful, the sublime, or natural purpose. Kant had very limited experience with beautiful art. His experience of the sublime may have been restricted to staring up at the starry heavens. He was not a naturalist who studied organisms. As in his Critique of Pure Reason, he seemed to be concerned with showing that subjective judgments cannot be assumed to be objective. The condition of the observing subject is not the condition of the observed object. In other words, "Fraulein Meyer seems, to me, to be beautiful" does not mean "Fraulein Meyer, as such, has a quality of beauty." Also, "the world seems to me to have been created by a Being who had a premeditated purpose" does not mean that "the world and everything in it, as such, was really created with a purpose in mind."
However, Kant thought that it was, at times, beneficial to act as though subjective judgments were based on actual qualities in objects.Lestrade 19:32, 9 November 2005 (UTC)Lestrade
[edit] Why Judgment?
Why did Kant write a critique of judgment? Because Kant's main interest was how an observing subject can make a judgment about an experienced object. His whole philosophy was about the relationship between subject and object. His main attitude was that everything considered to be a quality of an object is really conditioned by the constitution of the subject. In his critique of judgment, some people think that it is strange that he should write about beauty and teleology and call it a critique of judgment. But he wasn't interested in the fine arts or the details of the mechanics of nature. He was interested in how a person can say "She is a beautiful woman" instead of "It seems to me that she is a beautiful woman." Likewise, "Nature has a purpose or intelligent design" instead of "It looks to me like Nature has a purpose or intelligent design." That is, he was solely interested in how a subject can make a judgment about an object. All three of his critiques dealt with the relation between a subject and the inferred truth, goodness, or beauty of an object. Lestrade 17:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC)Lestrade
