Kant on Form, Function and Decoration

Ido Geiger; Aviv Reiter

Kant on Form, Function and Decoration

Ido Geiger, Aviv Reiter

Department of Philosophy

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

Kant says little explicitly about the beauty of functional objects. We argue though that his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment contains both the conceptual resources to illuminate the category as well as interesting examples of such artifacts. Succinctly, the beauty of functional objects is a type of dependent or adherent beauty. Pleasure in these objects is dependent on the concept of the end they are designed to serve. In a beautiful functional object the excellence of its design is visible or perceivable and it is through reflection upon what is perceived that we are led to recognize
the excellence of the object.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the European Society of Aesthetics
Editors	Fabian Dorsch, Dan-Eugen Ratiu
Pages	234-245
Volume	7
State	Published - 2015

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