Kant notion he was honoring art wh...

Kant notion he was honoring art when among the predicates of beauty he emphasized and gave prominence to those which established the honor of knowledge: impersonality and universality. This is not the place to inquire whether this was essentially a mistake; all I wish to underline is that Kant, like all philosophers, instead of envisaging the aesthetic question at issue from the point of view of the artist (the creator), considered art and the beautiful chastely from that of the "spectator," and unconsciously introduced the "spectator" into the universal ...