Kant's philosophy - What is art?

In German art (Kunst) comes from being able to (können), just as science (Wissenschaft) comes from knowing (wissen), Kant says. So for him any exercise of skill which creates a purposive product is a type of art. But there are big differences between the merely mechanical and useful art of carftmanship, the pleasant entertaining art and the proper beautiful art, which, though an artificial product, as a product of genius, appears as if it was a product of nature.Quote: 0:08Art in general is the opposite of nature: 0:20Mechanical art: 5:27Aesthetical art: 9:06Pleasant art: 11:19Our time tries to degrade higher art into merely pleasant art too: 43:52Pleasant and beautiful art can be paired: 59:37Beautiful art: 1:03:02Concept art: 1:14:08Thanks: 1:22:46Overiew of art according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/art-according-to-Kant.jpgAbout art Kant speaks in the critique of the aesthetical power of judgment in his Critique of the Power of Judgment: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48433/pg48433-images.html. Further remarks can be found scattered throughout his works, especially in his works on anthropology, so in his Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view: http://korpora.org/kant/aa07/230.html, his lectures on anthropology: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_a3n3 | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_j8c0 and his handwritten estate on anthropology: http://korpora.org/kant/aa15/234.html. (I could not find any free English translations online) But also his lectures on logic deal with art at times, that is with the difference between the aesthetical and the logical: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes241imma/page/n5/mode/2up | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes242imma/page/n7/mode/2up (English translations exist, but unfortunately I couldn't find them for free on the internet.)Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via:https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewerhttps://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77UThumbnail: www.hotpot.ai