The issue here might seem to be simple: is the pleasure in beauty a sensory or an intellectual pleasure?
we call something beautiful when we gain pleasure from contemplating it as an individual object, for its own sake, and in its presented form.
In that work Shaftesbury explained the peculiar features of the judgement of beauty in terms of the disinterested attitude of the judge.
To be disinterested towards something is not necessarily to be uninterested in it, but to be interested in a certain way.
From this—already controversial—way of putting it, Kant went on to draw a striking conclusion.
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