Kant’s Consideration on Aesthetic Judgement

Abstract

Eighteenth century philosopher Immanuel Kant, believes that the aesthetic experience is disinterested, it is disinterested because it is not judged on the basis of the utility it serves. Therefore, aesthetic pleasure has no relation with utility and use. Moreover, Kant claims that the aesthetic experience is universal, and universality is the result of disinterestedness. According to Kant, when a person judges an object as beautiful and gets pleasure from that beautiful object, his judgement is not completely subjective or personal, because that beautiful object has a universal appeal. Aesthetic experience includes purposiveness without any purpose. An object is considered as beautiful not simply because it has some purpose behind it. Judgement of beauty is the appreciation of the formal elements of an object which is considered to be beautiful.