Beauty, Pleasure, Creativity

At various places in the 3rd Critique, Kant considers five different responses to the consciousness of a beautiful object: 1. restful satiation; 2. an effort to "reinforce and reproduce" (#12) the representation of the object; 3. an effort to universalize the experience; 4. an attempt to productively imitate the object of beauty; and 5. the creation of a new beautiful object.  Now, #3 is, according to Kant's theory, the paradigmatic Aesthetic experience.  Accordingly, the harmonization of the cognitive faculties involved in that experience, is esteemed, in the theory, as the paradigmatic Aesthetic 'pleasure', an event that Kant's method immunizes from causal analysis.  In contrast, if #5 is recognized as the fully developed response to a beautiful object, then mere cognitive enjoyment is revealed as an effect, of diminished intensity, of the exhilaration of the creative process that the object of cognition conveys.