Kant's View Of Beauty

Kant argued that all cannot account for our experience of beauty itself, as the tendency is always to see ‘beauty’ as if it were somehow in the object or the immediate experience of the object. He also argued that such a relativist view cannot account for the social ‘behavior’ of our clams about what we find beautiful. Kant introduced the idea of ‘free play’ of the cognitive faculties (understanding and imagination) to explore the implications of ‘apart from a concept’. He then related the idea of communicability. He believed that these faculties no longer just work together as in ordinary cognition, but rather each ‘furthers’ or ‘quickens’ the other in a kind of self-perpetuating and self-contained waterfall of thought and feeling. (Douglas …show more content…
He would come up with results that were skewed toward the emotional and volitional processes, but try and explain how those results were not as valid and try and come up with a way to turn them toward a cognitive theory and more of a trick they were playing with the mind. The Hindu belief on beauty is based on emotional and volitional processes. The Hindus are not scientific with their emotional take and view on beauty. It comes from the heart and deep within, using passion and transcendence to another level that cannot be defined by science. Beauty can evoke an out-of-body experience in a Hindu that would make Kant very …show more content…
He did use science to explain the workings of the mind and how it processes beauty in so many different ways.

Kant’s fourth theme stated that beautiful objects appear to be ‘purposive without purpose’ or more commonly thought of as ‘final without end’. An object’s purpose should be according to which it was made. The object appears to have been made or designed, but it is part of the experience of beautiful objects. He believed that they should affect us as if they had a purpose, although no specific purpose can be found. In my studies in art, the projects that speak to me the most, or get me thinking are those that are ‘purposive without purpose’. Beauty can be useful to the mind for enjoyment, relaxation, therapy or a myriad of other reasons but really have no true purpose. I love patterns and looking for consistency, buy sometimes when I look at beauty, such as the crystal clear ocean shimmering like diamonds under the bold sunlight or watch billowy clouds carelessly float in the bluest of skies, there is no true purpose for my feeling of utter peace and