The relationship between Satisfaction and Interest related to the Aesthetic Judgment in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment

Abstract

This article aims to present a reading of the first paragraphs of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the conceptualization about the beauty, pleasurable and good, and the relation there is between satisfaction and interest in the judgment of taste. Its motivation is due to the philosophical relevance that both the author and the topic represent in the framework of the philosophical renewal of his time and nowadays. With this central intention, this work seeks to disclose, in an explanatory way, all logical chains of the proposed Kantian thinking, to facilitate its understanding. The content was exposed based on a hermeneutic analysis of the book Critique of the Power of Judgment. As a result of the research, an excellent logical link was observed in the author's argument, defending the thinking about the judgment of taste and an expert work of conceptualization regarding beauty, pleasant and good. This research concludes by revealing that many of the aesthetic relations presented can be associated to both the faculty of thinking and the feeling developed between object and subject; thus, making it possible the advance of the research to a more comprehensive topic.