Blog 8: Kant

The last couple days of class, we have been discussing the theorist, Kant. In Kant's book, Critique of Judgement, there is something called the "Four Moments." Opening the book are these moments, which are also his aspects of the beautiful. "According to the Four Moments, the beautiful (1) is the object of "a liking or disliking devoid of all interest"; (2) "is what, without a concept, is liked universally"; (3) exhibits in its form what Kant describes as "purposiveness...without the presentation of a purpose"; and (4) "is what without a concept is cognized as the object of a necessary liking." Kant says that to be beautiful, the object has to be disinterested. Kant has a problem with this as music is sensuous. He classifies music as aesthetically impure and also places it torwards the bottom of his hierarchy of the arts.