What Is Disinterested Judgement?

Disinterested judgements are impartial and pure; interested ones are biased and tainted with our personal experience and emotions. Kant published his account of aesthetics in a third major critique — The Critique of Judgement (1892).

What does it mean to have a disinterested judgment in art?

Kant argues that such aesthetic judgments (or 'judgments of taste') must have four key distinguishing features. First, they are disinterested, meaning that we take pleasure in something because we judge it beautiful, rather than judging it beautiful because we find it pleasurable.

What does disinterested mean in philosophy?

It refers to a necessary detachment from subjective feeling that permits an accurate appraisal of beauty. Thus, the concept of disinterestedness, as commonly used in aesthetics, is closely linked to objectivity. The philosopher Immanuel Kant first used the term disinterestedness in 1790 in the Critique of Judgment.