This book investigates the link Kant discerned between our experience of beauty and our experience of the moral law. The author sheds new light on one of the most intriguing and mysterious doctrines of Kant's third critique.

This book investigates the link Kant discerned between our experience of beauty and our experience of the moral law. By examining Kant's relation to Greek philosophy, to Plato and Pythagoras, as found in Kant's own writings, the author sheds new light on one of the most intriguing and mysterious doctrines of Kant's third Critique.

Abbreviations of Method of Citation
A. Writings of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
B. Other Abbreviations and Citations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Kant's Relationship to Plato and Pythagoras
A. Ideas
B. Kant's Knowledge of Plato
C. Brucker's Historia Critica
D. Lessons from Plato and Pythagoras
Chapter 2. Plato and
the Ascent from the Beauty to Virtue
A. The Opening Scences
B. Background
C. Phaedrus
D. Pausanias
E. Eryximachus
F. Agathon
G. Aristophanes
H. Socrates
Chapter 3. Kant on Beauty and the Vision of the Good
A. Introduction
B. The Issue of the Link
C. The Human Search
D. God's Mind as Standard
E. Features of Beauty
F. Disinterest
G. Form and Pleasure
H. Creativity and Concept Formation
I. Beauty as Freedom
J. Beauty as Link
K. Postscript
Bibliography
Endnote
Index