To take a step back from the fury of the world, I offer you a completely peaceful reflection on the book by my comrade Michel Onfray,
Les Reasons de l'art
(at Albin Michel).
Addressing the fascinating question of the criteria of beauty, he declares that "
Kant is wrong to write that beauty is what universally pleases without a concept
", whereas according to him, "
it is very exactly the opposite: beauty is what pleases singularly and with concept
”.
I am nevertheless convinced that Kant's formula is not only brilliant, but that moreover, it should not displease Onfray if he wants to give it its true meaning.
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What does it actually mean?
First and foremost that around beauty a “common sense” is created which tends towards the universal and which does so “without concept”, given that the judgment of taste escapes any kind of scientific demonstration.
Example: Bach and Mozart are played under all the skies even though this consensus, this "sensus communis" as said...
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