Critique of Judgment

It's a, it's a strength and in some ways a weakness, and maybe Ronan might be able [laughs] to jump in on this.

Uh, Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment talks about music as, uh, playing with the sensation.

So on one hand it can stimulate the imagination in all kinds of ways, but the flip side of that is that it can be in some ways inchoate.

It can be sort of directionless.

might be a cheat, but hold on, because Kent takes it further.

In the Critique of Judgment, 1790, Kant says the sublime is what happens when something overwhelms your ability to take it in.

Your imagination fails and that failure is the experience, which is actually a decent description of standing in front of an eight-foot painting where five women are staring at you and nothing makes spatial sense.

Okay, but that still treats ugly as a bad word we're trying to get out of.

No, no, no. Yeah.

Um, but you know, he, he saw very keenly, like, and he's talked about this in the Critique of Practical Reason and in the Critique of Judgment, that nobody is going to...

Like, hope is a necessary structure of action.

Like, and so, like, that's why he has to do this whole metaphysics to, to try to explain why it is that the world is not hostile to progress, right? That the world is not constituted in such a way that, like, there- it's pointless for you to try to make it better, to try to work on things.

Nevertheless, it becomes central when one immerses himself and comes to truly understand the core tenets of, um, of Kantian metaphysics and, and ethical postulates.

Um, the three chief works Kant is most known for are, uh, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgment.

Um, for example, in Critique of Judgment, he speaks of politics in direct terms literally in one paragraph, and that's it.

Um, when he talks explicitly of politics, he's generally does so under the guise of metaphysics or law.

He was very much a legal theorist.

And that has important resonances for Kant because that, in turn, is a will that is completely moral in its determinations, in its behavior, in the behavior that it causes.

In the Critique of Judgment, Kant explores how our aesthetic judgments depend upon the interplay of imagination and understanding.

Kant lived for 80 years, but never married.

During that time, he never strayed far from his native Königsberg, but his philosophy was to influence the whole world.

Being ugly is better than being mid.

Circling back to the conversation of taste, Kant, in the Critique of Judgment, made the claim, when we call something beautiful, we're not just reporting a private preference, we are implicitly claiming everyone should agree even though there is no rule we can point to that proves it he called this judgment subjective universality taste feels personal but is asserted as if it were shared therefore the human urge to make a private judgment into a public one became the engine of polarity for these two dollar plastics

Just some buzz around Crocs alone would not be enough.

It would be just a fad, like Beanie Babies Labooboos.