Abstract
Kant's theory of the harmony of imagination and understanding either leads to an inconsequent claim that "everything is beautiful" or fails to ensure the universal validity of judgements of taste. This paper proposes to approach the dilemma by way of Kant's notion of "idea—schema—the-expression-of-the-idea" developed in "Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic," interpreting the text from a noncognitive-idealist approach. This approach starts with Kant's "schematizing without a concept," claiming that this "schematizing without a concept" is an indeterminate schematization, and thus initiates a noncognitive-idealist interpretation of the harmony of imagination and understanding. This approach, on the one hand, solves the problem that "everything is beautiful"; on the other hand, it enables a reconstruction of the universal validity of judgements of taste from a noncognitive-idealist perspective, as manifested in §57 of Critique of Judgment.
First Page
209
Last Page
216
Recommended Citation
Li, Wei. 2019. "Schematizing Without a Concept: Kant on the Harmony of Imagination and Understanding." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (2): pp.209-216. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss2/13
