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the critique of judgement-第20部分

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determination of the powers of representation engaged upon it。 The judgement is called aesthetic for the very reason that its determining ground cannot be a concept; but is rather the feeling (of the internal sense) of the concert in the play of the mental powers as a thing only capable of being felt。 If; on the other band; confused concepts; and the objective judgement based on them; are going to be called aesthetic; we shall find ourselves with an understanding judging by sense; or a sense representing its objects by concepts…a mere choice of contradictions。 The faculty of concepts; be they confused or be they clear; is understanding; and although understanding has (as in all judgements) its role in the judgement of taste; as an aesthetic judgement; its role there is not that of a faculty for cognizing an object; but of a faculty for determining that judgement and its representation (without a concept) according to its relation to the subject and its internal feeling; and for doing so in so far as that judgement is possible according to a universal rule。

      SS 16。 A judgement of taste by which an object is        described as beautiful; under the condition of              a definite concept; is not pure。

  There are two kinds of beauty: free beauty (pulchritudo vaga); or beauty which is merely dependent (pulchritudo adhaerens)。 The first presupposes no concept of what the object should be; the second does presuppose such a concept and; with it; an answering perfection of the object。 Those of the first kind are said to be (self…subsisting) beauties of this thing or that thing; the other kind of beauty; being attached to a concept (conditioned beauty); is ascribed to objects which come under the concept of a particular end。   Flowers are free beauties of nature。 Hardly anyone but a botanist knows the true nature of a flower; and even he; while recognizing in the flower the reproductive organ of the plant; pays no attention to this natural end when using his taste to judge of its beauty。 Hence no perfection of any kind…no internal finality; as something to which the arrangement of the manifold is related…underlies this judgement。 Many birds (the parrot; the humming…bird; the bird of paradise); and a number of crustacea; are self…subsisting beauties which are not appurtenant to any object defined with respect to its end; but please freely and on their own account。 So designs a la grecque; foliage for framework or on wall…papers; etc。; have no intrinsic meaning; they represent nothing…no object under a definite concept…and are free beauties。 We may also rank in the same class what in music are called fantasias (without a theme); and; indeed; all music that is not set to words。   In the estimate of a free beauty (according to mere form) we have the pure judgement of taste。 No concept is here presupposed of any end for which the manifold should serve the given object; and which the latter; therefore; should represent…an incumbrance which would only restrict the freedom of the imagination that; as it were; is at play in the contemplation of the outward form。   But the beauty of man (including under this head that of a man; woman; or child); the beauty of a horse; or of a building (such as a church; palace; arsenal; or summer…house); presupposes a concept of the end that defines what the thing has to be; and consequently a concept of its perfection; and is therefore merely appendant beauty。 Now; just as it is a clog on the purity of the purity of the judgement of taste to have the agreeable (of sensation) joined with beauty to which properly only the form is relevant; so to combine the good with beauty (the good; namely; of the manifold to the thing itself according to its end) mars its purity。   Much might be added to a building that would immediately please the eye; were it not intended for a church。 A figure might be beautified with all manner of flourishes and light but regular lines; as is done by the New Zealanders with their tattooing; were we dealing with anything but the figure of a human being。 And here is one whose rugged features might be softened and given a more pleasing aspect; only he has got to be a man; or is; perhaps; a warrior that has to have a warlike appearance。   Now the delight in the manifold of a thing; in reference to the internal end that determines its possibility; is a delight based on a concept; whereas delight in the beautiful is such as does not presuppose any concept; but is immediately coupled with the representation through which the object is given (not through which it is thought)。 If; now; the judgement of taste in respect of the latter delight is made dependent upon the end involved in the former delight as a judgement of reason; and is thus placed under a restriction; then it is no longer a free and pure judgement of taste。   Taste; it is true; stands to gain by this combination of intellectual delight with the aesthetic。 For it becomes fixed; and; while not universal; it enables rules to be prescribed for it in respect of certain definite final objects。 But these rules are then not rules of taste; but merely rules for establishing a union of taste with reason; i。e。; of the beautiful with the good…rules by which the former becomes available as an intentional instrument in respect of the latter; for the purpose of bringing that temper of the mind which is self…sustaining and of subjective universal validity to the support and maintenance of that mode of thought which; while possessing objective universal validity; can only be preserved by a resolute effort。 But; strictly speaking; perfection neither gains by beauty; nor beauty by perfection。 The truth is rather this; when we compare the representation through which an object is given to us with the object (in respect of what it is meant to be) by means of a concept; we cannot help reviewing it also in respect of the sensation in the subject。 Hence there results a gain to the entire faculty of our representative power when harmony prevails between both states of mind。   In respect of an object with a definite internal end; a judgement of taste would only be pure where the person judging either has no concept of this end; or else makes abstraction from it in his judgement。 But in cases like this; although such a person should lay down a correct judgement of taste; since he would be estimating the object as a free beauty; he would still be found fault with by another who saw nothing in its beauty but a dependent quality (i。e。; who looked to the end of the object) and would be accused by him of false taste; though both would; in their own way; be judging correctly: the one according to what he had present to his senses; the other according to what was present in his thoughts。 This distinction enables us to settle many disputes about beauty on the part of critics; for we may show them how one side is dealing with free beauty; and the other with that which is dependent: the former passing a pure judgement of taste; the latter one that is applied intentionally。

                  SS 17。 Ideal of beauty。

  There can be no objective rule of taste by which what is beautiful may be defined by means of concepts。 For every judgement from that sou
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