Art and Experience, Utrecht, © 1996. All rights reserved
Aesthetic evaluation regards reflectively the power (in the work of art) with which the empathetic, pre-perceptual imagination is activated to re-enact the intimated experiential dimension. Kant has called this our pleasant reflective awareness of the free play of the cognitive faculties. The awareness also is one of a sensus communis. It, and Kant's 'ideal of beauty' signify the moral dimension of beauty and its cognates. Cf. also aesthetic ideas, and purposivity without purpose. (IV, V).© Rob van Gerwen
Last update: 9 April 1996
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