A Supplement to Kant's Antinomy of Appreciative Judgment

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Abstract: The antinomy of appreciative judgment proposed in Kant's Critique of Judgment is a unique way of representing the inherent contradiction in aesthetic experience, and it embodies Kant's dialectics in its developmental form. After an elongated process of complex reasoning, Kant believed that he had elaborated clearly the antinomy but actually his solution did not achieve the desired purpose. The present paper starts with Kant's standpoint and way of thinking, and tries to supplement his elaboration of the antinomy of appreciative judgment. The re-examination of Kant's antinomy of appreciative judgment may cast some light for contemporary aesthetics.

Key words: appreciative judgment, antinomy, aesthetic

Cao Junfeng. A Supplement to Kant's Antinomy of Appreciative Judgment[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(6): 6-13.

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