Showing papers in "Review of Metaphysics in 1982"

Participation and Predication in Plato's Later Thought

Abstract: L'A. retrace dans l'oeuvre de Platon les differentes etapes menant a l'affirmation que les formes ou idees peuvent participer a d'autres formes (Sophiste, 252 d-253 a). Il insiste particulierement sur la nouveaute que represente pour une theorie de la predication la these platonicienne de l'auto-predication, c'est-a-dire de l'acceptabilite de propositions comme: "La Beaute est belle". Il distingue, de ce point de vue, auto-predication et auto-participation, restreintes et non restreintes.

Kant's Distinction Between the Beautiful and the Sublime

Abstract: Shortly after opening the Analytic of the Sublime in his Critique of Judgment, Kant wrote: As far as the division of the moments of the aesthetic estimation of objects in relation to the feeling of the sublime is concerned, the ana lytic can proceed according to the same principle that figured in the analysis of the judgment of taste. For as a judgment of the aestheti cally reflective faculty of judgment, the delight in the sublime, just like that in the beautiful, must be representable as universally valid as regards its Quantity, as without interest as regards its Quality, as subjective finality as concerns its Relation, and the latter must be rep resentable as necessary as regards its Modality. (CJ, ?24, 247)1