As fundações transcendentais da validade intersubjectiva do juízo de gosto puro na Terceira Crítica de Kant

Abstract

Taking into consideration the current aesthetic scene, where the relativism in the western cultureprevails, this thesis investigates the transcendental grounding of Kantian aestheticintersubjectivism — a theory of Kant’s Third Critique distinguished by proposing theconception of the intersubjective validity (universal, necessary and subjective at the same time)of pure judgment of taste, in order to find the equation of the problem of the validity of theevaluations of the beautiful. For this purpose, the present work aims to delimit, through theanalyses of select sections of the Critique of the Power of Judgment, the a priori and subjectiveprinciples or grounds in which Kantian aesthetic intersubjectivity and its transcendentalgrounding arguments are based on. In this effort, it is demonstrated that, in the light of theKantian intersubjectivism, there would be a net or chain of four aprioristic and subjectiveprinciples of pure judgment of taste, explained by four different enterprises that ground itsintersubjective validity. The first Chapter, where this theory is contextualized in the frameworksof modern aesthetic thought and of the critical-transcendental system, is about the justificationof subjective purposiveness principle in the Third Critique’s “Introduction”. On the other hand,the following chapter is about the free play of imagination and understanding and also aboutcommon sense, conjectured as grounds of pure taste, respectively in the second and in the fourthmoments of the “Analytic of the Beautiful”. Finally, the third and last chapter is about theresumption of the free play principle of the faculties of imagination and understanding in the“Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgements” and the postulation of the indeterminate concept ofthe supersensible in the “Dialectic of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment”.

Date of Award	27 Sept 2022
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Carlos Bizarro Morais (Supervisor)