The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant's Aesthetics

The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and Moral Development in Kant’s Aesthetics presents an in-depth exploration and deconstruction of Kant’s depiction of the ways in which aesthetic pursuits can promote personal moral development.

• Presents an in-depth exploration of the connection between Kant’s aesthetics and his views on moral development
• Reveals the links between Kant’s aesthetics and his anthropology and moral psychology
• Explores Kant’s notion of genius and his views on the connections between the social aspects of taste and moral development
• Addresses aspects of Kant’s ethical theory that will interest scholars working in ethics and moral psychology

Keywords: Kant; Immanuel; Kant; Kantian; Kantian aesthetics; philosophical aesthetics; moral psychology; Kantian philosophy; moral development; philosophy; history of philosophy; Enlightenment philosophers; German philosophers; anthropology; ethical theory; beauty Critique of Judgment; sublimity; philosophy of art; culture; pleasure, Philosophy Special Topics, Art Theory, Philosophy Special Topics, Art Theory