Free and adherent beauty: A modest proposal

British Journal of Aesthetics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 357-364

  Guyer, Paul ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/bjaesthetics/42.4.357     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment, ed. Paul Guyer, trans. Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000).
2. As was recommended by Donald W. Crawford in Kant's Aesthetic Theory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974), p. 56.
3. Paul Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Taste, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1997), p. 218.
4. Eva Schaper, Studies in Kant's Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 1979), pp. 80-81.
5. This chapter had previously been published in Akten des IV. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Teil 1 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter: 1974), pp. 247-262.
6. But not as simple a solution as that proposed by Crawford, who said that Kant's designation of dependent beauty, or, as he prefers, the dependent judgement of beauty, was simply a concession to common ways of talking, and that in Kant's view this judgement is in fact just a disguised judgement of perfection and not a genuine aesthetic judgement at all. See his Kant's Aesthetic Theory, p. 56.
7. Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Taste, p. 219.
8. Paul Guyer, 'Beauty and Utility in Eighteenth-century Aesthetics', Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 35 (2002), pp. 439-453.
9. Robert Wicks, 'Dependent Beauty as the Appreciation of Teleological Style', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 55 (1997), pp. 387-400, at p. 398.
10. Paul Guyer, 'Dependent Beauty Revisited: A Reply to Wicks', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 57 (1999), pp. 357-361.
11. Malcotn Budd, 'Delight in the Natural World: Kant on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature. Part I: Natural Beauty', British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 38 (1998), pp. 1-18, at p. 10.
12. see his Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001), pp. 290-298. This claim can be debated, but I will not do so here.
13. Allison, Kant's Theory of Taste, p. 140.
14. Schaper stressed this point; see 'Free and Dependent Beauty', pp. 79, 97-98.
15. Such a view was proposed by Geoffrey Scarré in 'Kant on Free and Dependent Beauty', British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 21 (1981), pp. 351-362.
16. It was criticized in Paul Crowther, 'The Claims of Perfection: A Revisionary Defence of Kant's Theory of Dependent Beauty', International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 26 (1986), pp. 61-74.