The Critique of Judgement

Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Judgement

First published 1790

translated by James Creed Meredith

(First Part Excerpted)

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FIRST PART. CRITIQUE OF AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT

SECTION I. ANALYTIC OF AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT.

BOOK I. Analytic of the Beautiful.

FIRST MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of Quality.

SECOND MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of Quantity.

SS 6. The beautiful is that which, apart from concepts, is represented as the Object of a universal delight.
SS 7. Comparison of the beautiful with the agreeable and the good by means of the above characteristic.
SS 8. In a judgement of taste the universality of delight is only represented as subjective.
SS 9. Investigation of the question of the relative priority in a judgement of taste of the feeling of pleasure and the estimating of the object.
Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Second Moment.

THIRD MOMENT. Of Judgements of Taste: Moment of the relation of the Ends brought under Review in such Judgements.

FOURTH MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of the Modality of the Delight in the Object.

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