Micro · Individual Stub 1790

Kantian Disinterested Pleasure and the Sublime

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A foundational philosophical aesthetics framework stating that aesthetic judgments of beauty are based on universal, disinterested pleasure ("purposiveness without purpose"), while the sublime awakens the supersensible dignity of moral reason.

Field Aesthetics & Art Theory · Philosophy
Level of analysis Micro · Individual
Paradigm Idealism Phenomenology
Key figures 👤 Immanuel Kant (임마누엘 칸트)
Year 1790

Key Claims

Immanuel Kant established modern aesthetic theory by demonstrating that the judgment of taste is universal yet non-conceptual, grounded in ‘disinterested satisfaction’ and ‘purposiveness without a purpose’. In the experience of the Mathematical and Dynamical Sublime, sensory overwhelm ultimately elevates the mind’s moral supersensible vocation.

Further Reading

  • Kant, I. (1790). Kritik der Urteilskraft. (English: Critique of Judgment).

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