著者

高木 駿

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.68, no.1, 2018-07-01

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In the First Book of the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), judgments of tastewhich state the beauty are based on a subjctive ground, or the feeling of pleasure,so that they are not logical cognitive judgments which constitute "a cognition of theobject through concepts of it" (V 211) but aesthetic judgments. Therefore, they cannotstate truth or falsehood of themselves as logical cognitive judgments do. However,Kant uses the expression of "a false (or an erroneous) judgment of taste (ein irrigesGeschmacksurteil)" (V 216). If this "false (or erroneous)" is not logical one, whatdoes it mean? About what are judgments of taste false? Now, we have three leadinginterpretations of judgments of taste to resolve these questions, i.e. interpretationfrom an epistemological, moral, aesthetic point of view. But I think that the first twointerpretations are not successful, because they contradict Kant's statements in somepoints as I will show. Thus, in this paper by adopting the aesthetic interpretation ofjudgments of taste I shall answer the questions concerned, namely argue that thefalsehood (or error) of them consists in choosing an inappropriate feeling of pleasurefor the ground of judgments of taste.