Monday, May 21, 2012

Kant on the Purposiveness of Starry Night
    I just saw Vincent Van Gogh’s painting entitled Starry Night and I must say, I do appreciate it. It is exactly the kind of thing that I judge to be beautiful, and as such I take great pleasure in it. Others will, say that it is entirely unattractive and useless, but in saying so they would be wrong.  No matter their justification, their assertion that Starry Night is unattractive is baseless and irrelevant. I especially love the colors that Van Gogh used. They make the painting seem like it had a purpose, even though it serves no true function. But that’s how I like it: a sense of purposiveness without any true purpose.

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