Determining judgment vs. reflecting judgment
 

Kant distinguishes between two types of judgment: "determining judgment" and "reflecting judgment"
 
Hayot 62: "The difference between them is essentially directional: in determining judgment, we move from the universal to the particular, while reflecting judgment 'is under the obligation of ascending from the particular in nature to the universal'"
 
determining judgment is the type deployed in the first two critiques (of pure and practical reason)
 
Hayot: "as Kant arrives, in the late 1780s, at the third text in his trilogy of critiques, and specifically begins to approach the human relation to the aesthetic, he discovers that he needs to describe a new form of judgment. This kind of judgment [...] effectively begins with the unique or singular object and then moves from that object to universal principles, rather than the other way around. And it stems from, or is particular to, the general field of the aesthetic."
> from Eric Hayot's Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. (2021)

> tagged with #philosophy, #objects, #art

> created September 14, 2026 at 12:33:26 PM


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