Abstract
According to the scientific image, aesthetic experience is constituted by
private reverie or mindless gratification of some kind. This image fails to fully acknowledge
the theoretical and hence cultural aspect of perception, which includes aesthetic
experience. This chapter reframes aesthetic reflective judgment in terms of perceptual
processes (section 2); intentional pleasure (section 3); non-perceptually represented
perceptual properties (section 4); and intersubjectivity (section 5). By clarifying the relevant
terms, the liberal naturalist account of the sublime provides the link between the sublime
and moral motivation (section 6).