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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“Now I say the Beautiful is the symbol of the morally Good”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Dialectic of the Aesthetical Judgement, § 59, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
Kant's resolution of how taste connects with morality: the beautiful is not the good, but it is reflected on by an analogous rule and so prepares the mind for moral feeling.
Citation: "Now I say the Beautiful is the symbol of the morally Good" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Dialectic of the Aesthetical Judgement, § 59, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q11)
