Sobre a universalidade do gosto na Crítica do Juízo

Abstract

This article analises the link between Ethics and Aesthetics in the Critique of Judgement. It tries to demonstrate that while Kant attempts to solve a problem in the systematization of his philosophy, he proposes the reflexive taste as a kind of judgement which claims universality. We elucidate such link between practical and theoretical uses of reason mainly through the notion of conformity to an end and the notion of common sense, approached on the Critique of Judgement specially in the third part of the “Analytic of Beautiful” and in paragraph 40, named “Taste as a sort of Sensus Communis”. Our aim is to understand how such a link between phenomenon and suprasensible can be expressed through beauty. Thus, in the limit of an analogical perfection of symbol, beauty and art would have a mediating power as if they were the connecting link between two worlds: physical and spiritual world.