CAIO ARUANÃ VALLOTA BATISTA

The aim of the research is to re-read the Critique of Taste, or Critique of the Faculty of Aesthetic Judgment, in order to understand the explicit relationship between the concept of fine art and the concept of reflection. The research examines how the set of fine arts, as products of genius, stimulate the mind by feeding it with rich material for future ruminations. The research thus aims to analyze the meaning of the statement that the fine arts as a whole have the capacity to "animate the mind" (KU, AA 05:313), prompting reflections on what has hitherto been unthought. This creates a difficulty about the meaning of the suggested influence of the fine arts on all the faculties of the mind, since it indicates a complex relationship in which an aesthetic product gives rise to reflections that are based on aesthetic ideas and not, as in the other faculties, on rational concepts and ideas. The research proposes, as a hypothesis, that the set of fine arts opens up the possibility of rethinking the role of aesthetics by suggesting a repercussion of the aesthetic product of genius on the set of faculties of the mind, giving rise to reflections that can lead to other ways of thinking abo