期刊名称：Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics
电子版ISSN：1664-5278
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
页码：262-270
出版社：European Society for Aesthetics
摘要：Paul Guyer attributes to Kant the view that utility may be a necessary condition for the beauty of objects that have certain uses or functions. In this paper I consider afresh whether – on the Kantian account – judgements of adherent beauty of natural things indeed are dependent on their functionality, as Guyer claims. I pro- pose, rather, that, according to Kant, the degree to which an object fulfills its ends does not pose a condition for its aesthetic apprecia- tion, even if it changes the degree to which the object can be appre- ciated aesthetically.
