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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