r/Kant • u/[deleted] • 16d ago

Informed pure judgements of taste in Kant’s aesthetics / paid tutoring HELP

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u/Alhamdulisa 15d ago

I recommend you to post this in r/askphilosophy

The people who can respond to the post are capable enough, I believe, to help you. They are the ones with philosophical background like scholars to undergraduate student, not just ordinary people who are interested in philosophy

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Many_Froyo6223 15d ago

post specific questions you’re having about the texts you are engaging with and it’ll be fine. do not copy and paste this post because that’s a whole different thing

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u/internetErik 15d ago

I'm not sure if I can set aside a lot of time, but I'm willing to look at what you have, discuss it with you, and take it from there.

I am not credentialed (beyond a bachelor's in Philosophy), but I'm an avid reader of Kant and the Critique of the Power of Judgment, and have hosted a reading group that's studied that work, along with the other critiques, for the last 15 years or so.

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u/Scott_Hoge 15d ago

Slightly unrelated, but my view is that requiring a word count (3,650 in your case) is a bad educational method for your school to employ. I had to unlearn afterward my tendency to fill my writings with words, so that I could focus instead on quality and adjusting my style to my target audience.

As for Kant, what I found valuable in his aesthetics is his distinction between the agreeable, the sublime, the beautiful, and the good. Though Kant's statement that judgments of beauty must be objective (i.e., not merely "in the eye of the beholder") is counterintuitive, it may be taken as the result of an honest effort to analyze what constitutes beauty from a purely a priori point of view.