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supposition would be impossible without some sort of intervention from the understanding”
(KCP 48). This is why the aesthetic judgment ‘this is beautiful’ is not an objective but is rather a
subjective judgment. “Aesthetic common sense does not represent an objective accord of the
faculties (that is, a subjection of objects to a dominant faculty which would simultaneously
determine the role of the other faculties in relation to these objects), but a pure subjective
harmony where imagination and understanding are exercised spontaneously, each on its own
account” (KCP 49). In other words, not everybody agrees on what is beautiful, even though,
everybody feels the pleasure associated with the beautiful. This is the difference between
common sense, moral common sense and the aesthetic common sense. “Since it [aesthetic
common sense] does not come into being under a determinate concept, the free play of
imagination and the understanding cannot be known intellectually but only felt” (KCP 49).
Nobody knows what beauty is, because beauty is not the kind of thing that can be known. It is
neither the phenomenon, nor the thing in itself. But everybody feels beauty as pleasure.
We can put the main point of Deleuze’s Kant’s Critical Philosophy in following terms.
There is an important difference between the first two Critiques and the third Critique. “The
Critique of Judgment does not restrict itself to the perspective of conditions as it appeared in the
other two Critiques; with the Critique of Judgment, we step into Genesis” (DI 69). For this
reason, Deleuze argues, the Critique of Judgment grounds the two other Critiques. “This is
tantamount to saying that the Critique of Judgement, in its aesthetic part, does not simply exist to
complete the other two Critiques: in fact, it provides them with a ground” (DI 58). Whatever a
faculty does even if it legislates in another faculty that faculty must first be developed. “How
could any faculty, which is legislative for a particular purpose, induce the other faculties to
perform complementary, indispensible tasks, if all the faculties together were not, to begin with,
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