ABSTRACT
Some recent interpretations of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment have distinguished two elements in Kant's theory of taste, specifically of the beautiful: the aesthetic response and the aesthetic judgment. The most sophisticated attempt to develop an interpretation along the lines that have sketched is that of Paul Guyer, in his Kant and the Claims of Taste, and Guyer has, accordingly, the strongest responses to the various objections that may be raised against this interpretation. On a superficial reading of the Critique of Judgment, it appears obvious that Kant regards the actual feeling or sensation of pleasure that derived from a beautiful object. However, the initial claim that they must be distinct still stands, and may conclude that something like the two-acts theory must still hold in order to avoid the paradox of the feeling of pleasure being both the consequence, and the determining ground, of the judgment of taste.
