I am inclined to go along with the suggestion of the title in Thanissaro Bhikkhu's recent essay in Tricycle magazine: "The Power of Judgment: Judgmental Is Bad, Judicious Is Good".
For the wit of a poet to lead to good results, it must therefore be accompanied with "art and learning," "extensive scholarship," and a strong "power of judgment," including sound moral judgment, because his task is to make moral truths accessible to his audience through his imitations.
Applied to the phenomenon of beauty in the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Kant starts from an analysis of the judgments that the subject makes about the objects of experience, e.g., "this rose is beautiful".
Following the canonical model introduced into eighteenth-century aesthetics by Burke and transmitted into Germany by Mendelssohn, Kant divides the first half of the Critique of the Power of Judgment, the "Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment," into two main parts, the "Analytic of the Beautiful" and the "Analytic of the Sublime".
Kant's views on aesthetics and teleology are given their fullest presentation in his Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, also translated Critique of the Power of Judgment), published in 1790.
Kalligone is a polemic against Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, more precisely against its first half, the "Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment," loosely structured in parallel with Kant's work, although with numerous digressions, sometimes even in dialogue form, and statements of Herder's own positions.
Concealed behind his London uniform of bowler hat and rolled umbrella, he exercised a patient, curious eye, detecting clues to character with an outsider's power of judgment.
The comitte have as far as in their power and judgment, inquired and examined into the competency of the Hasan Mr. Gershon and do not find him competent on the following grounds.
"We often become aware in our opponents, just as we do in our patients, that their power of judgment is very noticeably influenced affectively, in the sense of being diminished," he writes.
On the other hand, it cannot be dismissed, either, by anyone who has ever helplessly felt his own power of judgment being sapped by a strong emotion — as who of us hasn't?
They developed a list of 28 words that were rated on a scale from 1 (not insulting) to 7 (highly insulting), and divided them into categories (relating to defamations of the referee's power of judgment, intelligence, appearance, sexual orientation or genitals).
