Aesthetics

Critique of Judgment

♡+

Immanuel Kant

1790

The third and final Critique bridges the gap between Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy through an analysis of aesthetic and teleological judgment. It develops the concepts of the beautiful and the sublime, argues that genuine aesthetic experience involves a disinterested universal pleasure, and investigates how we judge nature as if it were purposively organised. The work is foundational for modern aesthetics and the philosophy of biology.