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Subjective universality (Kant)

Axis: BeautyIs beauty in things themselves or in the eye of the beholder?

Beauty is not a property of the object, yet it is not a mere matter of personal taste either. When I call something beautiful, I voice a subjective pleasure while claiming that everyone ought to feel it too. The judgment of taste is subjective in its source, universal in its claim.

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The judgment of taste is subjective (it rests on no concept of the object) yet legitimately claims universality. This is exactly the axis's named median position, subjective universality.

Critique of the Power of Judgment, §6-§9