Universally Communicable Pleasure

Perhaps summing up Kant's Aesthetic theory is his assertion, from #32 of the Critique of Judgment, "To say, This flower is beautiful, is tantamount to a mere repetition of the flower's own claim to everyone's liking."  The assertion thus characterizes Aesthetic experience as consisting in a sequence of two distinct moments: 1. A compelling engagement with an object, and 2. A judging that the object is 'beautiful'.  Now, it is clear from his theory that #2 is a product of Reflective Judgment, in contrast with which the plainly figurative language that he uses to express #1, as well as the "tantamount to a mere repetition", that links the two moments, are less well-defined.  Still, his description suffices to at least provisionally establish that the first moment involves the production of pleasure, the ground of which is the object, a process that is distinct from the subsequent subjective formulation of a judgment.  To that extent, his concept of 'universally communicable pleasurable', that appears regularly elsewhere in the work as central to his theory, conflates those two moments, and those two processes, i. e. a conflation of the causing of pleasure by the object, with the subsequent communication of that enjoyment to others,via a judgment.