Beauty, Good, Heautonomy, Autonomy

Kant's assertion, in #59 of the Critique of Judgment, that "the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good", seems difficult to reconcile with what otherwise appears to be a main theme of his Aesthetic theory, summed up in his assertion, in #58, that "beauty is not a characteristic of the object when taken in its own right."  For, according to the latter, the bearer of Beauty is not an object of some experience, but of an experience itself, i. e. the experience in which the enjoyment of the contemplation of some object is universally communicable.  Furthermore, the implied analogy of Beauty and the Good falsifies the latter, because the experience of the former is contemplative, while moral experience is, at least according to the doctrine as hitherto presented, is not.  However, a beautiful experience involves one process that does directly correspond to one involved in moral experience--what Kant calls 'Heautonomy', which, as he briefly explains, in part V of the Introduction, is the self-prescribing power of Reflective Judgment.  Accordingly, while 'symbol' might be an inappropriate characterization of the relation, a systematically coherent analogy between beautiful experience and moral experience is that between the Heautonomy of the former, and the Autonomy of the latter.