in the critique of judgment, kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third power of the mind. feeling has a special role within this system in that it also provides a transition between the other two powers of the mind, cognition and desire. matthews argues that feeling, our experience of beauty, provides a transition because it orients humans in a sensible world. judgments of taste help overcome the difficulties that arise when rational cognitive and moral ends must be pursued in a sensible world. matthews demonstrates how feeling, disassociated from rational activities in kants earlier works, is now central in reaching rational ends and understanding humans as unified rational beings. audience: this book would be of interest to research libraries and university libraries, philosophers, historians and aestheticians.