Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 44 No. 2, 2024.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi44204
Kant’s Theory of Signification in the Critique of Judgement – Semiotics as Aesthetics
Aneli Dragojević Mijatović
orcid.org/0009-0002-9673-2259
; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilišna avenija 4, HR–51000 Rijeka
Aleksandar Mijatović
orcid.org/0000-0002-5575-0920
; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilišna avenija 4, HR–51000 Rijeka
Abstract
The gist of the article is an attempt to derive the theory of the sign from Kant’s judgment of taste. Kant introduces the power of judgment as a mediating domain between cognition and action, nature and freedom. This third realm of signification is related to Locke’s theory of semiotics. Judgments of taste are made of signs that constitute the speech act “X is beautiful”. Thereby the aesthetics is constituted as semiotics wherein the predicate “is beautiful” is a sign that signifies without the concepts. Hence, the normativity of the beautiful as the sign is not conceptual, stemming, instead, from the community. However, this community is not given in advance, but is derived from agreeing on the judgement of taste.
Keywords
Immanuel Kant; aesthetics; semiotics; judgment of taste; sign; community
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Publication date:
7.11.2024.
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