The relation of ethical and aesthetical divides philosophers as much as anyone. That Kant should be viewed as the autonomist par excellence is entirely understandable. For all Kant's confidence, it would be a mistake to suppose he had yet given a proper explanation of why an ideal human figure should be the ideal of beauty, a mistake, because no reason has been supplied for thinking that our chosen ideal should be a beautiful figure at all. There are loose ends to be tidied up. One is purely textual, one is interpretative and two others are more free-floating. At the end of his discussion of the ideal of beauty, Kant says that 'a judgement in accordance with such a standard can never be purely aesthetical, and that a judgement of taste in accordance with an ideal of beauty is not a mere judgement of taste'.