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eason would do anything but reason; this is what we see in the Critique of Pure reason” (DI 58).
This is why common sense is a dictatorship. “In the first two Critiques, therefore, we cannot
escape the principle of an agreement of the faculties among themselves. But this agreement is
always proportioned, constrained, and determinate: there is always determinative faculty that
legislates, either the understanding for speculative purpose, or reason for a practical purpose” (DI
57). And is it not the case that every time everybody agrees on something we find ourselves
incapacitated? Here Deleuze asks an important question. Can there be a free harmony of the
faculties? In other words, can there be a harmony of the faculties where each faculty does what it
alone can do, where each faculty enjoys its own difference? “Thus the first two Critiques set out
a relationship between the faculties which is determined by one of them; the last Critique
uncovers a deeper free and indeterminate accord of the faculties as the condition of the
possibility of every determinate relationship” (KCP 68).However to the extent that common
sense is the realization of the interests of reason do these questions also not suggest another: can
there be an interest of reason that does not impose itself onto its object? This is aesthetic
common sense.
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