抄録
The aim of this paper is to answer the following question about the first part of Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgement". Is it possible to understand the three successive paragraphs, the 16th, 17th and the 18th, as working as a unit? In other words, is it possible for us to discover a right viewpoint, from which these three paragraphs are regarded as controlled by a common theoretical motivation? I do answer in the affirmative. The Ideal of Beauty (§ 17), in my opinion, is no more and no less than an a-priori condition, on which the truth or falsity of an aesthetical judgement is (ideally) determined. This a-priori condition has two aspects, just as determination in general does. On the one hand this condition makes it possible for us to negate (ideally) the opponent judgement (§ 16). On the other it affords us a right to make a statement of taste in the mode of postulation, that is, in the mode of necessity (§ 18). In this way those three paragraphs are coordinated.
