Comparison on Aesthetics

Present term provides comparative and critical analysis of Schiller 's , Kant 's and Hegel 's aesthetics , especially as far as the issue of the unity of the universal and the particular is concerned Among basic concepts and theories of these philosophies , which are to be addressed , one should mention Kant 's doctrine of the free play of the imagination , Schiller 's doctrine of the play drive , Hegel 's doctrine of the Ideal of beauty etc . The comparative analysis of philosophers aesthetics will be placed in the context of relations between universal and

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Kant 's doctrine of understanding is central to his aesthetic philosophy because it conceptualizes basic schema of perceiving beautiful and sublime . Understanding is deeply connected with the faculty of judgment , which is `finding the universal for the given particular (Critique of the Power of Judgment Introduction IV 179 . However aesthetic judgments and understanding , according to Kant , are essentially different from judgments pertinent to transcendental analysis and synthesis , which are outlined in the Critique of Pure Reason . As we remember , the latter are premised on the schematics of a priori concepts of Reason . In contrast , aesthetic understanding is not deductible a priori neither from phenomena , neither from absolute judgments of pure reason , which means that aesthetic understanding differs both from moral and scientific ones . Aesthetic understanding as it is pertinent to judgments of beautiful , is based on other imperatives and as Kant puts it , `The judgment of taste is therefore not a cognitive judgment , hence not a...