The harmonious free play of the imagination and understanding is at the heart of Kant’s account of beauty in the Critique of the Power of Judgement, but interpreters have long struggled to determine what Kant means when he claims the faculties are in a state of free play. In this article, I develop an interpretation of the free play of the faculties in terms of the freedom of attention. By appealing to the different way that we attend to objects in aesthetic experience, we can explain how the faculties are free, even when the subject already possesses a concept of the object and is bound to the determinate form of the object in perception.

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注意力和院系的自由发挥

想像和理解的和谐自由发挥是康德对世界之美的描述的核心。对判断力的批判，但解释者长期以来一直在努力确定康德在声称学院处于自由游戏状态时的含义。在这篇文章中，我从注意力自由的角度来解释院系的自由发挥。通过诉诸我们在审美经验中关注对象的不同方式，我们可以解释官能如何是自由的，即使主体已经拥有对象的概念并且在感知中与对象的确定形式绑定。