Abstract:

Kant for the first time has systematized aesthetic with Critique of the Power of Judgement as a field that comprises its own purpose and law. Until Kant's intervention, the concept of beauty had been considered on the same level with the concepts of good and right. With Kant, the concept of beauty has been taken outside the therotical and practical realms of human life and turn into a pure aesthetical notion. Kant has identified four categorical stages in order to look for an a priori in the field of aesthetic and distinguish aesthetic from the cognitive and moral fields. These four stages, which reveal the nature of the judgment of taste, are a kind of reckoning with the perceptions of aesthetics prior to him. We aim to put forward the notion of feeling of life [Lebensgefühl] which we find very important in terms of the aesthetics of life, though not much emphasized. The feeling of life is a force that increases or decreases the power of action of the human body and soul. In this study, we will try to investigate the connection of these four categories with the feeling of life, which work like a list in revealing the nature of the judgment of taste and also we will try to question the significance of this feeling for life.

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