Beauty as a symbol of natural systematicity

British Journal of Aesthetics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 406-415

  Chignell, Andrew ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 34347299327     PISSN: 00070904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayl023     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Alexander Rueger and Şahan Evren, "The Role of Symbolic Presentation in Kant's Theory of Taste', British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 45 (July 2005), pp. 229-247. I will cite this article parenthetically in the body of the text.
2. Quotations from Kant are translated from Immanuel Kants Schriften, Ausgabe der koeniglich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin: W. De Gruyter, 1902-). I cite the Akademie pagination (volume: page), or, for the Kritik der reinen Vemuft, A-edition/B-edition. The Kritik der Urtcilskraft is in vol. 5 of the Akademie edition. I have also consulted and often used the English translations of Guyer and Matthews (New York: Cambridge U. P. , 2000) and Werner Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987).
3. For more on 'subjective justification' and its various forms, see my 'Kant's Concepts of Justification', Nous, forthcoming 2007.
4. For a defence of the claim about empirical concept formation überhaupt, see Hannah Ginsborg's work, especially her book The Role of Taste in Kant's Theory of Cognition (New York: Garland, 1990)
5. and her article 'Reflective Judgement and Taste', Nous, vol. 24 (March 1990), pp. 63-78.
6. For a discussion of the notion of Realrepugnanz, see 'Negative Magnitudes' 2:172-175
7. 'On a Discovery' 8:240
8. 'Real Progress' 20:283, 299
9. and 'Lectures on the Philosophical Doctrine of Religion' 28: 1016
10. For Kant's most significant use of this assumption about real possibility, see The Only Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God, especially 2:77-86.
11. Elsewhere Kant softens this a bit by saying that symbolization amounts to 'schematizing without a concept' (5:287) or 'schematism by analogy' (20:322).
12. He also claims that this idea is generated by the faculty of judgement rather than by reason (20:216, 236-7). I will set aside this complication here.
13. For further discussion of the evidential role of certain kinds of symbolization see my 'Are Supersensibles Really Possible? Kant on the Evidential Role of Symbolization', Proceedings of the 10th International Kant Congress (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2006).
14. Heiner Bielefeldt describes some of the other uses Kant makes of the notion in The Role of Symbolic Representation in Kant's Practical Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P. , 2003).