Kant e a musica na Critica da Faculdade do Juizo / Kant and the music in the Critique of Judgement

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2009

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The aim of this dissertation is to examine Immanuel Kant s treatment of music in his Critique of Judgment. Beneath his apparent neglect for the subject one can find a dense philosophical reflection that decisively contributes to the always current discussion about music perception, understanding and categorization. The possibility of recognizing music as being agreeable, beautiful and sublime is the central interest of the problems I analyze. In the first chapter I discuss Kantian concepts presented in the third Critique such as sensation, sentiment, commotion, affect, pleasure, conformity to ends, intuition, judgment and reflection. My aim here is to decide whether these concepts can still be of use in understanding music as a phenomenon in the way Kant presents them. In chapter two I examine how Kant understands the function of our cognitive capacities in the perception and understanding of music. Chapter three deals with the possibility and conditions for classifying music as being agreeable. Beautiful music is the topic of the fourth chapter, in which I not only discuss the concept of beauty in music, but also analyze the problem of what is a beautiful object, how does teleology work in nature, what is mechanical art as opposed to aesthetic art, beautiful music in its relation to poetry, and the role of Kant s theory of genius in musical creativity. The fifth chapter discusses the possibility and conditions of the sublime in music and the unavoidable links of this category to the domain of morality. My conclusions are that beautiful music is the only really aesthetic category, while the agreeable is only partially aesthetic and partially moral, and the sublime is totally moral. Beauty based on form requires cognition, in the sense of a non-conceptual use of the understanding. Commotion is acceptable in aesthetic experience if it is connected, in the sublime, to a moral representation that art presents to human beings

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criticismo (filosofia) german aesthetics philosophy and music estetica alemã german filosofia alemã music musica - filosofia e estetica judgment (logic) musica e filosofia aesthetics criticism (philosophy) estética juizo (logica) philosophy

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