SECOND DIVISION DIALECTIC OF THE AESTHETICAL JUDGEMENT

A faculty of Judgement that is to be dialectical must in the first place be rationalising, i.e. its judgements must claim universality and that a priori; for it is in the opposition of such judgements that Dialectic consists.

Hence the incompatibility of aesthetical judgements of Sense (about the pleasant and the unpleasant) is not dialectical. And again, the conflict between judgements of Taste, so far as each man depends merely on his own taste, forms no Dialectic of taste; because no one proposes to make his own judgement a universal rule. There remains therefore no other concept of a Dialectic which has to do with taste than that of a Dialectic of the Critique of taste (not of taste itself) in respect of its