Marching to Different Drums?

Abstract Consider Kant’s seminal distinction between judgements of the beautiful and judgements of the agreeable. On the standard reading(s) of him, Nietzsche has no time for any such distinction, not least because he is suspicious of any value judgement that makes a claim to universality. In this essay, the author attempts to do justice to the evidence that supports the standard reading(s), but argue that Nietzsche also makes room for a variety of aesthetic judgement that really does, after all, make a claim to universality. In Nietzsche’s late view, that is, it is not only healthy to prefer good art, as one of the standard readings maintains, the fact that it is good art demands universal assent, and so has nothing to do with the agreeable at all.