Open AccessÆstetiske forudsætninger for Oplysningen hos Kant
Author(s) -
Kasper Hertz Jansen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
studier i pædagogisk filosofi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2244-9140
DOI - 10.7146/spf.v3i2.20404
Subject(s) - sublime , teleology , philosophy , beauty , enlightenment , object (grammar) , relation (database) , epistemology , aesthetics , computer science , linguistics , database
Immanuel Kant's ‘Critique of Judgment’ is often read either in terms of art appreciation or teleology. In this paper however, the object is to examine the ‘Critique of Judgment’, especially the concepts of the Beautiful and the Sublime, in relation to the Kantian version of the Enlightenment. The main theses in the paper are as following: That Beauty can provide us with the sensuous experience of the possibility of the moral law and that the Sublime can provide us with the sensuous experience of the possibility that we as rational beings can effectuate the actual existence of the moral law