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The British Journal of Aesthetics 2006 46(4):406-415; doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayl023
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© British Society of Aesthetics 2006

Beauty as a Symbol of Natural Systematicity

Andrew Chignell

Andrew Chignell, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Email: andrew.chignell{at}cornell.edu

In this essay I examine Kant's claim that a relation of symbolization links judgements of beauty and judgements of ‘systematicity’ in nature (that is, judgements concerning the ordering of natural forms under hierarchies of laws). My aim is to show that the symbolic relation between the two is, for Kant, much closer than many commentators think: it is not only the form but also the objects of some of our judgements of taste that symbolize the systematicity of nature.


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