Immanuel Kant Judgement

Immanuel Kant's critique of the power of judgement is an analysis to point out the necessary conditions of what judgement is. His critique contains four moments which are four analyses of why human beings need to appeal to reason to establish beauty, rather than experience. He says that aesthetic judgements or what he likes to call judgements of taste are rooted in a person's subjective feelings, but also contain universality. Kant believes our feelings of beauty are immensely different from our feelings of pleasure and moral goodness because they are disinterested. If we find pleasure in something we want it for ourselves and if we find moral goodness in something we want to promote it. However, when we see something as beautiful we want nothing
When one see's something as beautiful they are judging it for what it is without associating any experience or prior knowledge to it. People have different experiences, so there is no real standard when it comes to judging something as beautiful. When a person sees an object their initial reaction is a feeling of pleasure or displeasure, it is not looking to what one already knows but how the object truly makes them feel. When a person judges something as beautiful it is because they receive pleasure from it. The feeling of pleasure is independent of experience and valid for everyone. In order for someone to judge something as beautiful, they do not need a concept of what the object is supposed to be. Kant states, "The satisfaction in the beautiful must depend on the reflection on an object." People are not dependent on the existence of an object or how it is supposed to make them feel. They are able to judge the beautiful when they are unbiased and not favorable of the existence of
Being interested in something is caring if it exists or not. Interest is developing a connection or desire to a particular object. There are two forms of interest these include the concepts of the good and the sensations of the agreeable. However, when someone judges something as beautiful Kant states, "ones does not want to know whether there is anything that is or that could be at stake, for us or for someone else." When we call something beautiful it is simply a reflection of how we perceive an object. Something is disinterested if we separate our interests from ourselves. This requires us to take a step back from our interests and judge something as a rational being. Disinterestedness can be positive or negative whereas being interested in something only has a positive connotation. In the second moment, Kant states that the definition of the beautiful is seeing in an object of satisfaction without any interest (Kant, 96). When we judge something as beautiful it results in a feeling of pleasure we do not feel pleasure and then develop a judgement. When someone makes a judgement because it brings them satisfaction they could be completely disinterested, but also interested. The judgement is not established on interest but developed from it. Kant says, "That only in society does it become interesting to have