Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant Chapter 7 Page 1

Comparison of the Beautiful with the Pleasant and the Good by means of the above characteristic

As regards the Pleasant everyone is content that his judgement, which he bases upon private feeling, and by which he says of an object that it pleases him, should be limited merely to his own person. Thus he is quite contented that if he says “Canary wine is pleasant,” another man may correct his expression and remind him that he ought to say “It is pleasant to me.” And this is the case not only as regards the taste of the tongue, the palate, and the throat, but for whatever is pleasant to anyone’s eyes and ears. To one violet colour is soft and lovely, to another it is faded and dead.

One man likes the tone of wind instruments, another that of