Kant And Disinterestedness Essay, Research Paper

“which we Disinterestedness has been a reaccurant theme in aesthetic thought throughout recent times. Kant was one of the first to discribe disinterestedness as an basic and universal part of the aesthetic judgement experiance. However the notion of disinterestedness did not origninate with Kant; it is to be found in the writtings of many Eighteenth centuray philosophers such as Stolinitz, Shaftsbury, Hutcheson, Gerard and Burke.

At in The Critique of Judgement, Kant defines disinterestedness as “deviod of all interest”, however, this explaination is insufficent to truely understand it’s meaning. The best way to understand disinterestedness is to understand what is ment by “interest”.

Kant defines interset as the pleasure combine with the representation of the existance of an object”. For Kant interest is not only about the desire in the existance of an object – but also the reasons behind the pleasure found in the object. For example interested pleasure is often subjective, involving the individuals personal likes and dislikes, such as colour, flavour or scent. Intrested pleasure also often involves a motive or a concept. These are mostly political moral or ethical.

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