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Kant's Critique of Judgement

EXPLANATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL RESULTING FROM THE FIRST MOMENT

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Kant, Immanuel and Bernard, J. H. (John Henry)
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Taste is the faculty of judging of an object or a method of representing it by an entirely disinterested satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The object of such satisfaction is called beautiful.18

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Kant's Critique of Judgement, Project Gutenberg eBook #48433

§ 5. Comparison of the three specifically different kinds of satisfaction § 6. The beautiful is that which apart from concepts is represented as the object of a universal satisfaction