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The British Journal of Aesthetics 2008 48(4):410-425; doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayn042
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© British Society of Aesthetics 2008

The Subjective Universality of Aesthetic Judgements Revisited

Bart Vandenabeele

Bart Vandenabeele, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Email: Bart.Vandenabeele{at}UGent.be


  Abstract

When we are touched by the beauty of something, we cannot help judging that the experienced feeling of pleasure ought to be shared by others. In Kantian terms, a pure judgement of taste requires or demands everyone else's assent. I examine some of the major intricacies of Kant's account and aim to correct some distorted views of it. I argue that the autonomy (or ‘heautonomy’) of the judgement of taste is not presupposed but made possible by the modal requirement as such, i.e. by the ‘subjective necessity’ to be universally shared—a necessity that is not moral, as several commentators hold, but strictly epistemological.


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