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A Rousseauian Reading of Universal Subjectivity and General Will in theSecond Moment of Kant’s Critique of Judgment
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Mehdi Kord Noghani *   |
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| In the second moment of his third critique,
Kant elucidates subjective universality of
judgments of taste. This universality demands
others’ conformity as a kind of
right. Some of Kant’s interpreters link this
demand to morality, but it seems that
Kant’s argument for universality of judgments
of taste is ambiguous because in
some parts of his book he differentiates between
morality and thedemanding conformity.
Necessity of demanding a conformity,
and not expecting it, enhances this
ambiguity because brings it closer to the
practical reason. It seems that juridical
reading of subjective universality of judgments
of taste can explain this universality
as a moralmatter, without reducing it to
morality. In Kant’s opinion judgments of
taste entail conformity to a “universal
voice”. Through the resemblance between
Rousseau’s idea of “general will” and
Kant’s “universal voice”, we would be
able to shed light on this ambiguity. Aesthetic
judgments need others and therefore
there is no universality for it except in society. |
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| Keywords: judgment of taste, subjective universality, second moment, universal voice, general will, sociability |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
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Received: 2014/09/24 | Accepted: 2014/09/24
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