Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant Chapter 16 Page 2

though recognising in the flower the reproductive organ of the plant, pays no regard to this natural purpose if he is passing judgement on the flower by Taste.

There is then at the basis of this judgement no perfection of any kind, no internal purposiveness, to which the collection of the manifold is referred. Many birds (such as the parrot, the humming bird, the bird of paradise), and many sea shells are beauties in themselves, which do not belong to any object determined in respect of its purpose by concepts, but please freely and in themselves. So also delineations � la grecque, foliage for borders or wall-papers, mean nothing in themselves; they represent nothing — no Object under a definite concept, — and are free beauties. We can refer to the same class what are called in music phantasies (