![]() ![]() Nick Zangwill, ‘Kant on Pleasure in the Agreeable’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53, 1995, 17. Carol Diethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 78–79. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.įriedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This heightened state of awareness is pleasurable not only because it frees us from the thraldom of the will, but also because it yields genuine cognition of ‘the purely objective inner nature of things, namely the Ideas appearing in them’ (WWR I, 369). Schopenhauer holds that the purely disinterested, objective stance is inextricably connected with knowledge of, what he calls, Platonic Ideas and is hence cognitively valuable. ![]() 1 However, even though Nietzsche rightly emphasises that Schopenhauer will incorporate Kant’s notion of disinterestedness into his own aesthetic theory, Schopenhauer also fundamentally transforms Kant’s Analytic of the beautiful into a highly original aesthetic attitude theory 2 and focuses on the cognitive and ethical values of aesthetic perception instead of on the logic of aesthetic judgment. In On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche deplores that ‘Schopenhauer made use of the Kantian version of the aesthetic problem’, and ‘could not break free of the spell of Kant’s definition’ of beauty as disinterested pleasure. ![]()
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