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Purposivity (without purpose). The idea that art has a task does not go against Kant's analysis of beauty as being (subjectively) purposive without purpose, because the task set upon art is an experiential one and there are no rule-governed ways (neither conventional nor reproductive) to achieve it--only intimation. We cannot make sense of an artistic 'objective purposivity' because there are no generalizable, operationalizable aesthetic problems in art. Cf. ideal of beauty, free play of the cognitive faculties, (III:2; VIII:5)© Rob van Gerwen
Last update: 11 April 1996
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