Critique of Judgment
An elaboration on an issue I thought I’d since put to rest, but to which I find I am obliged to return.
Reading Kant, I am drawn in by his use of the word "critique". As Immy uses it, critique is more than a merely negative response to something, more than an outright rejection of the object of study. Rather, critique is an investigative effort to establish the limits of the object. In the case of my reading, Kant is trying to develop an understanding of aesthetic judgment, to establish its boundaries and limits as a form of cognition. And, yes, all you avid Kant scholars who read me religiously, I know that Kantian metaphysics separate cognition and judgment. Sue me.
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