The Pleasures of Goodness: Peircean Aesthetics in Light of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment

Peirce’s comments on aesthetics are brief, enigmatic, and sometimes inconsistent. Peirce scholars understand aesthetics to be the science of the summum bonum (the greatest good), and they identify the greatest good as the growth of concrete reasonableness. Without rejecting these claims, more must b...

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Autor: Atkins, Richard Kenneth
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:Cognitio (São Paulo. Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/13522
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/13522
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Peirce
Kant
Aesthetics
Summum bonum
Estética
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Sumario:Peirce’s comments on aesthetics are brief, enigmatic, and sometimes inconsistent. Peirce scholars understand aesthetics to be the science of the summum bonum (the greatest good), and they identify the greatest good as the growth of concrete reasonableness. Without rejecting these claims, more must be said to ground and clarify Peircean aesthetics. This essay argues that Peircean aesthetics can be developed in light of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment.