This document discusses Kant's view of judgments of beauty and taste. It argues that judgments of beauty are intuitive rather than conceptual, though they have the same four conceptual vectors as judgments of facts - quality, quantity, relation, and modality. However, judgments of beauty lack objective or conceptual grounding. The document extracts four definitions of beauty from Kant - as that which pleases universally apart from concepts, as the form of finality in an object apart from representation of an end, and as that which is cognized as an object of necessary delight apart from concepts.

1. KANT
The Objective Nature of the Subjective Experience of Beauty

3. logic
aesthetic

4. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic

5. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition

6. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition
object
The analytic + the aesthetic constitutes an object. Both
are needed, neither by itself is enough.

7. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition
object
Part of the concept of
an object is that it is a
thing in itself— a Ding
an Sich that exists
outside the
phenoumenal, in the
noumenal
Ding an
Sich
concept
intuition

8. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition
object
Noumenal
Ding an
Sich
concept
intuition
Noumenal

9. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition
object
Noumenal
Ding an
Sich
concept
intuition
In this technical sense
judgements about
beauty are intuitive,
aesthetic, and non-
conceptual
Noumenal

10. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition
object
Noumenal
Ding an
Sich
concept
intuitionJudgements about
facts, in contrast, are
conceptual
Noumenal

11. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition
object
Ding an
Sich
concept
intuition
Such judgements are
objective in that they
have four conceptual
vectors: quality,
quantity, relation, and
modality
Noumenal

12. Phenoumenal
logic
aesthetic
concept
intuition
object
Noumenal
Ding an
Sich
concept
intuition
Judgements about
beauty have these
four vectors but
without conceptual or
objective grounding
Noumenal

13. Definition of the Beautiful derived from the First Moment: Taste
is the faculty of estimating an object or a mode of
representation by means of a delight or aversion apart from any
interest. The object of such a delight is called beautiful.
FIRST MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of
Quality.
The judgement of taste is aesthetic.

14. Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Second Moment:
The beautiful is that which, apart from a concept, pleases
universally.
SECOND MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of
Quantity.
The beautiful is that which, apart from concepts, is represented
as the Object of a universal delight.

15. Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Third Moment:
Beauty is the form of finality in an object, so far as perceived in
it apart from the representation of an end.
THIRD MOMENT. Of Judgements of Taste: Moment of the
relation of the Ends brought under Review in such Judgements.
Finality in general.

16. Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Fourth Moment:
The beautiful is that which, apart from a concept, is cognized as
object of a necessary delight.
FOURTH MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of
the Modality of the Delight in the Object.
Nature of the modality in a judgement of taste.

17. QualityQuantity
Ends Modality
Necessary
delight
Free
play
Universal
delight
Aesthetics/
disinterested