Kant's philosophy - What is taste?

Taste is, according to Kant, not a faculty of its own in the human being, rather it is our aesthetical power of judgment. Just like the power of judgment in general, taste therefore can be trained throughout life through repeated judging and also through examples. Its judgments may be subjective - but still claim universality, for it is a faculty of judging that which will be liked not just by the judging person alone but by everyone. This is an (aesthetical) synthetic judgment a priori. Quote: 0:08 Aesthetical liking and the other types of pleasure: 0:24 Taste makes (aesthetical) synthetic judgments a priori: 2:19 The quantity of the judgment of taste: The beautiful is liked universally: 15:22 Cultivation of taste: 32:06 Judgments of taste are subjective, yet still universal: 1:09:43 Taste doesn't judge what actually is liked by everyone without exception, but demands that what he likes should be liked by everyone: 1:17:21 The social function of taste: 1:21:09 Fashion ruins taste: 1:38:53 Relativism is correct in regards to the pleasant, not in regard to the beautiful: 1:46:10 The judgment of taste is universal without being based on a concept: 2:00:45 Thanks: 2:20:07 The table of judgments according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/table-of-judgments-according-to-Kant.jpg The table of categories according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/table-of-categories-according-to-Kant.jpg Overview over the types of judgments according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Types-of-judgments-according-to-Kant.jpg Overview of the thinking faculty according to Kant: https://jonathanivoloewer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/faculty-of-thinking-according-to-Kant.jpg Kant examines taste mostly in his 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 important remarks on taste can be found scattered throughout his anthropological works, 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) Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77U Thumbnail: www.hotpot.ai