title: A Comment on the Mechanism of the Generation of Aesthetic Ideas in Kant's Critique of Judgment
creator: Brown, Steven Ravett
subject: Epistemology
description: In Kant's Critique of Judgment (CJ), the actual mechanism of the construction of aesthetic ideas is only briefly sketched. I suggest that there may be a connection between certain aspects of Sections 49 and 59, such that the creation of aesthetic ideas can be related to the process of "symbolic hypotyposis" (¤59.2). I will argue that the process of symbolic hypotyposis relates to the formation of aesthetic attributes, as symbols, through an analogical process; that a symbol acts, in effect, as one part of the four parts of an analogy, and that the aesthetic idea may result from the application of the process of analogy. I will suggest that aesthetic attributes may, in some cases, function as symbols, and induce what I will term "conceptual overflow," in which the normal contents of the symbol are supplemented through the analogical process.
date: 2000
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1001/1/Kant_Paper.html
identifier:   Brown, Steven Ravett  (2000) A Comment on the Mechanism of the Generation of Aesthetic Ideas in Kant's Critique of Judgment.  [Journal (Paginated)]    (In Press)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/1001/