Immanuel Kant Judgment Essay

In the Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant debunks the idea that beauty is an objective property. To achieve this, he distinguishes between the pleasure on the soul that agreement, goodness, and beauty evoke. In Kant’s views, by claiming something is beautiful, you are not stating a property of the objective but more so the subjective, what the subject feels about the object. Unlike Hume and Burke of the empiricists, who have an experience of liking when they express something as beautiful, Kant indicates that the liking we express is sourced from our judgment of taste. Kant experiences a transcendental perception of beauty whereas Hume and Burke experience an empirical perception, in which something beautiful affects our sensations in the …show more content…
Empirical means that the liking is based on observation and experience in the now and does not concern the feeling but merely the sensation. A liking for the Agreeable is to like or prefer an object that gratifies one’s senses and what makes one feel good. This concept is highly subjective given that each individual faces varying degrees and standards of what gives them pleasure. However, what one could find agreeable isn’t necessarily what one could find pleasurable since it does not require a standard scale of assessment. A liking for the Agreeable occurs when something agrees with our senses, not our mind. Unlike the liking of the Beautiful, the Agreeable stimulates our senses not our mind. According to Kant, the Agreeable “gratifies” us. (Kant, p.51) And unlike Kant’s qualification of beauty that refers to subjective universality, the Agreeable holds the concept that everyone has his own taste and therefore, each individual experiences their own form of the Agreeable. In Empiricism, Hume believes the Agreeable is different for each individual and requires interest to be perceived, ergo