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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“The _beautiful_ is that which pleases universally, without a concept”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Beautiful, explanation following § 9, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
The definition drawn from the second moment: a judgement of beauty claims everyone's agreement although no concept or proof underwrites it.
Citation: "The _beautiful_ is that which pleases universally, without a concept" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Beautiful, explanation following § 9, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q1)
