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Beauty and openness: Kant's aesthetic judgment of taste, Yogācāra, and open presence meditation

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dc.contributor.authorBrelje, Kate, author
dc.contributor.authorKneller, Jane, advisor
dc.contributor.authorMacKenzie, Matthew, advisor
dc.contributor.authorKiefer, Kathleen, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:37:07Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:37:07Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides a comparative analysis of Kant's aesthetic judgment of taste and Open Presence meditation interpreted through a Yogācāra philosophical framework. I begin with an expository analysis of Kant's cognitive and aesthetic judgments, highlighting the presence of attention, form of reflection, and structure of purposeless purposiveness in the judgment. Next, I address the Buddhist idealist Yogācāra philosophical tradition. Through this theoretical lens, I examine Open Presence meditation, with an emphasis on meditative non-dualism, attention, and meditative goals. In the final chapter, I tie together the groundwork laid in the first two chapters into a comparative analysis identifying points of compatibility and contention within the general areas of judgment, attention, purposeless purposiveness, and transformation. Finally, I suggest that, given the results of this analysis, Kant's aesthetic judgment of taste might benefit from being construed as a type of meditation.
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dc.identifierBrelje_colostate_0053N_12539.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/83903
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectphenomenal experience
dc.subjectKant
dc.subjectmeditation
dc.subjectreflection
dc.subjecttaste
dc.subjectYogācāra
dc.titleBeauty and openness: Kant's aesthetic judgment of taste, Yogācāra, and open presence meditation
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thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophy
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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