Saturday, December 29, 2012

Spirit, Communication, Art, Teleology

While Communication, according to Kant, plays an important role in the judging of Art, he does not seem to consider that it also functions in the production of a work of Art.  So, in the absence of any contravening consideration, it seems difficult for him to deny that what Spirit specifically animates in the artistic process is the communication, to others, via aesthetic ideas, of a content that, in the final analysis, is Spirit itself.  Furthermore, since, according to his classification, that process is "purposeless", it follows that Spirit functions in it non-teleologically, as opposed to, say, Hegel's concept of it.  Hence, insofar as Spirit is identical to Reason, it also follows that it is, likewise, one of the non-teleological varieties of the latter, which have been previously surveyed here, that is a factor in Kant's Aesthetic theory.

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