Question: In the opening paragraph of the excerpt we read, Kant states that we recognize the beautiful not through understanding but through imagination and he claims that this makes judgments of taste subjective. What does this mean? How does Kant use the subjective/objective distinction in this section? In a good summary, you are expected to identify the main claims advanced by the author in the piece of writing you are summarizing, and to provide a reconstruction of the arguments the author offers for those claims. A response is a more focused critical examination of one of those arguments or claims: Why does the author think she needs to make that claim? Is the claim plausible? Is the argument sound? Can you think of examples that corroborate (or, on the other hand, challenge) the argument? Can you think of a different argument in support of the same claim?
