An aesthetic object can be purposeful; that is to say we can view it as purposeful.

美的事物也可以有“目的性“,就是说我们可以带着“目的性“看待它。

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So that's Kant's famous distinction between the purposive, which is the organization of an aesthetic object, and the purposeful, which is the organization of any object insofar as it goes to work in the world or for us.

所以康德的著名理论，关于区分美学意义上的“合目的性“,和存在意义上,服务于我们的“目的性“

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