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The Essence of Aesthetics : From the Origins of Beauty to Art ——The Dual Deconstruction of the Essence of Beauty by Kant
Zhang Zheng-wen
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Abstract
Kant believes that beauty originates from the aesthetic judgment between man's rational capacity and cognitive capacity. However, the origin of beauty is not the essence of beauty, which is the prescription for the four aspects of quality, quantity, relationship and pattern as involved in the judgment activities in terms of aesthetic judgment. The essence of beauty can exhaustively answer the question of the origins of beauty. Likewise, the definition of the essence of beauty is only the beginning. It can only be ultimately resolved in the elaboration of art itself. From the origins of beauty to the essence of beauty, and from the essence of beauty to the essence of art, Kant re-opens the door to the essence of beauty through the dual deconstruction of the essence of beauty.