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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“to take an _immediate interest_ in the Beauty of Nature (not merely to have taste in judging it) is always a mark of a good soul”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, § 42, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
After conceding that connoisseurs of art are often vain and dissolute, Kant claims that habitual delight in natural beauty indicates a disposition favourable to moral feeling.
Citation: "to take an _immediate interest_ in the Beauty of Nature (not merely to have taste in judging it) is always a mark of a good soul" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, § 42, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q7)
