Kant and the mind

According to Kant the human mind has three faculties, based on the way we experince the world:

1. Faculty of cognition - representations of objects, the objective relation between them and the unity of consiousness towards it
2. Faculty of desire - the cause of the reality of these objects,
   
3. Feeling of pleasure and displeasure - relation to the subject i.e. a relationship of the feeling of pleasure
   

Kant believes the third area of feelings is neither cognition itself nor desire, it lies between the two and bridges the divide between them. Cognition relies on understanding while Desire relies on reason and between them lies the feeling of pelasure and displeasure which in the term of faculties in called the Power of Judgement. Feelings of pleasure do not rest on emperical grounds and are independent of the faculty of reason. It is not for the production of concepts but rather is the receptivity of a determination by the subject. The connection of feelings of pleasure to reason and understanding is not a direct one, for the Power of judgment according to Kant does not precede the first two, but follows the determination through reason of the object or is the sensation of the determination itself.

The power of judgment is the a priori pinciple that grounds the feelings of plesure and displeasure it is the princple of the subjective relation of the object to the subject and in that sense strictly personal. However, because of its appeal to the transcendental laws through the a priori it achives the semblance of universality.

The whole of nature to Kant is the totality of all objects of experince constituting a system in accordance to transcendental laws. These laws are given by hte understanding a priori. However, it is worth nothing that understanding working within these laws. Now experince itself constitues the general and particular. From the particular the general is brought forth, and from the general the particular is understood. This presupposition that there are general laws to be derived from the particular and there are particulars to the general is an a priori principle in itself, for without this assumption there would be no understanding which strictly relies on the general. Yet this has to be a strictly subjective experince. The general is not to be found in nature or in freedom but lies in the subject's relation to objects. Kant calls this a priori principle is called the Power of Judgement.