A Semantic Analysis of Kant's Judgment of Taste

Abstract

Abstract: A typical judgment of taste could be expressed as a subject-predicate structure in Critique of the Power of Judgment. The subject is connected with the predicate by a copula. In the third Critique, however, Kant grounds his theory of taste on the first Critique, from which his views and conceptual apparatus of epistemology have been transferred to a new aesthetic context, and interpreters are inclined to investigate Kant's theory of taste by virtue of his epistemology. It is common, if also necessary, to conduct in studies of the third Critique a semantic analysis of judgement of taste by referring to the first Critique, because such an approach not only relates to fundamental problems in Kant's theory of taste but also causes new questions.

Key words: judgment of taste, the subject, the predicate, the copula

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Xue Shuangyu. A Semantic Analysis of Kant's Judgment of Taste[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art.

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