O belo e o sublime em Kant nas fases pré-critica e crítica: ruptura ou continuidade?

Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate the concepts of the Beautiful and the Sublime in Kant by means of the confrontation between two works of his aesthetic philosophy: one of the pre-Critical period, the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime of 1764, and the other of the Critical period, the Critique of the Faculty of Judge of 1790. The central question to be investigated in this research is the following: there is rupture or conceptual continuity in Kant's reflection on the beautiful and the sublime in these two works belonging to distinct periods of his philosophy? The path followed to clarify this problem was divided into three stages: 1) to analyze and discuss how the concepts of the beautiful and the sublime constitute the work of the pre-critical phase; 2) to examine and to discuss how the concepts of the beautiful and the sublime constitute the work of the critical phase; 3) Identify and present, the similarities and dissimilarities, in the treatment of matter in the two works in particular. At the end of this study, the thesis will be defended that, despite subjectivity appearing in the first writing and being an essential part of the second writing, because it characterizes the ground of determination in the subject through the feeling of pleasure and displeasure, the comparison Between the two writings he considers that there is a rupture, much more than a continuity, in Kant's way of thinking the concepts of the beautiful and the sublime in the said works.