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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“Beauty_ is the form of the _purposiveness_ of an object, so far as this is perceived in it _without any representation of a purpose”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Beautiful, explanation following § 17, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
The third moment's definition, the source of the familiar phrase 'purposiveness without purpose'.
Citation: "Beauty_ is the form of the _purposiveness_ of an object, so far as this is perceived in it _without any representation of a purpose" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Beautiful, explanation following § 17, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q2)
