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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“Genius_ is the innate mental disposition (_ingenium_) _through which_ Nature gives the rule to Art”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, § 46, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
Kant's definition of genius, which makes original art a gift of nature that the artist cannot reduce to explicable rules.
Citation: "Genius_ is the innate mental disposition (_ingenium_) _through which_ Nature gives the rule to Art" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, § 46, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q8)
