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  • 7 - Ugliness and Disgust: Disagreeable Sensations

  • from Part III - Negative and Positive States
  • Robert R. Clewis, Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 179-210

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 explores ugliness and disgust (Ekel). In providing an overview of the third Critique position, the chapter argues that there cannot be pure aesthetic judgments of the ugly. In his early accounts, Kant views the responses to ugliness and disgust as unpleasant and therefore as (what Kant would call) “interested.” He typically discusses ugliness and disgust in connection with a teleological perspective of the whole of nature and of natural purposes. The ugly is disagreeable, since it is dysfunctional or asymmetrical (or both). A version of this view carries over into the third Critique. The ugly, if and when it is judged by the principle of nature’s purposiveness, would be contrapurposive and therefore disagreeable.