This article proposes a role for aesthetic judgment in our practical thought. The role is related to those moments when practical reason seems to give out, when it fails to yield a judgment about what to do in the face of a choice we cannot avoid. I argue that these impasses require agents to create, but that not any creativity will do. For we cannot regard a response to one of these problems as arbitrary or capricious if we want to act on it. We must instead regard that response as justified by the problem itself. I suggest that this combination of creativity and normativity is characteristic of aesthetic judgment and this makes it a promising candidate for making these very difficult choices.

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我们生活中的诗人


本文提出了审美判断在我们实践思想中的作用。这个角色与那些实际理性似乎失效的时刻有关，当面对我们无法避免的选择时，它无法做出关于该做什么的判断。我认为这些僵局需要代理人去创造，但不是任何创造力都可以。因为如果我们想采取行动，我们就不能认为对这些问题之一的反应是武断的或反复无常的。相反，我们必须将这种反应视为问题本身的合理性。我认为这种创造性和规范性的结合是审美判断的特征，这使得它成为做出这些非常困难的选择的有希望的候选者。