Kant: Aesthetic Judgments Of Taste Can Claim 'Synthetic A Priori' Status

Abstract: 8 pages in length. Understanding Kantian assertion that aesthetic judgments of taste can claim 'synthetic a priori' status requires one to comprehend the fundamental differences between analytic and synthetic judgments. Analytic judgments, which are those "whose predicates are wholly contained in their subjects" (Kemerling, 2001), are such because they do not stimulate or enhance subject conceptualization; rather, they are nothing more than purely explicative in nature and can be logically reasoned based upon the principle of non-contradiction. By contrast, synthetic judgments uphold predicates that are "wholly distinct from their subjects, to which they must be shown to relate because of some real connection external to the concepts themselves" (Kemerling, 2001). Therefore, the primary separation between synthetic and analytic judgments is that synthetics might be genuinely informative but at the same time obligate justification by an external principle. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

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Catagory: Philosophy Of Religion, God'S Existence & Freewill

Subcatagory: Philosophy

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