The aesthetics in Kant's Critique of Judgment can be elevated from being a"bridge"between two metaphysics to the third metaphysics,namely,the metaphysics of aesthetics,which is the root of the first two metaphysics.This was originally a possible implicit meaning in Kant's text,but his understanding of metaphysics was confined to the Western traditions of"post-physics"and"ontology",where aesthetics could only serve as a"bridge"in this sense.However,aesthetic metaphysics transcends ontology as"post-linguistics",viewing the essence of language from poetic and metaphorical structures,and providing the foundation for the possibility of"natural metaphysics"and"moral metaphysics".Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics,following Hegel's line of thought,leads Kantian aesthetics to a dynamic hermeneutic ontology.Although it completes a"linguistic turn",it remains confined by the limitations of traditional ontology and methodology and fails to ascend to the horizon beyond linguistics.The third metaphysics is a more universal and transcendent metaphysical conception proposed through the synthesis and transcendence of both Western post-physics and Chinese post-ethics.
Critique of Judgmentnatural metaphysicsmoral metaphysicspost-physicspost-ethicspost-linguistics
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