But while he argues that the beautiful necessarily interests us, Herder also insists that the beautiful does not appeal to self-interest or self-love: the pleasure and interest in the genuinely beautiful as well as the agreeable and good is universal, not personal or idiosyncratic.
"With the agreeable, the good, the perfect," wrote Friedrich Schiller, "man is merely in earnest, but with beauty he plays" (Briefe über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen [1794 95; Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man]).
Sulzer employs a trifold division of things that please us that is not dissimilar to Kant's subsequent distinction between the agreeable, the good, and the beautiful.
But to Wilson, it's a sign of how agreeable and good-natured the Razzies are: they might mock, but they won't rock the boat.
Agreeable openers were good ripe sliced tomatoes with sweet onions or with mozzarella and basil or the mixed greens.
Tappo offers an agreeable formula: some good country wines and good country food in no-frills but comfortable surroundings.
William Jacob and Reuben Skinner were active West Side developers, and in April 1891 they filed plans for a row of five houses at 323-331 West 76th Street, a particularly agreeable block with good views of the river.
Herder could have included these sentences in the footnote from Kalligone (pp. 672 3) in which he objects to Kant's supposedly complete separation of the beautiful from the agreeable and the good.
He certainly seems to insist that the source of our pleasure in the beautiful has nothing to do with the sources of our pleasure in the agreeable and the good.
