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3 - Beauty Grounded

from Part I - Aesthetic Judgment and Beauty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2024

Robert R. Clewis
Robert R. Clewis
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Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania
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Chapter 3 examines adherent beauty or partly conceptual beauty. How are beauty and the good related? Like Johann Georg Sulzer and David Hume, Kant distinguishes between free beauty and purpose-based beauty, or the kind grounded in the purposes or aims of the object or artwork. Even in his early aesthetics, Kant holds that beauty and goodness are distinct concepts yet can be conjoined. Purpose-based beauty is central to Kant’s early aesthetics, and he calls it “self-standing.” This kind of beauty is retained in the third Critique in the form of adherent beauty, yet a fundamental shift occurs: he there calls free beauty “self-standing.”

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KantSulzerHumeBurkeShaftesburyWolffMendelssohnfree beautyadherent
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The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics , pp. 70 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Beauty Grounded
  • Robert R. Clewis, Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009209403.005
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  • Beauty Grounded
  • Robert R. Clewis, Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009209403.005
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