ABSTRACT
I argue that a conception of rationally grounded feeling can be identified in Kant’s later writing and in the moral theories of key pragmatists. I explore the idea that aesthetic and moral feeling are not irreducible aspects of experience but instead susceptible to acculturation and cultivation. I include a discussion of art created by the German artist Mischa Kuball, who takes the perceiver into the private subjectivities of his subjects in order to create an occasion for reflection upon private and public feeling. Key terms in this chapter are “communicability,” “inter-subjectivity,” “modelling” and “normative justification.”
