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E pistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics [from Greek aisthesis , sensibility] The first part of Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason . Aesthetics is now associated with problems of art, but Kant used the term in its root meaning concerning sensibility . The transcendental aesthetic is Kant's view of sensory knowledge and deals chiefly with space , time , and mathematics. In contrast, the transcendental logic is concerned with the intellect. According to the traditional aesthetic, sensibility is passive receptivity, but Kant held that sensible perception has its own form and matter . In terms of his metaphysical exposition and transcendental exposition, he argued that space and time are a priori intuitions by which we structure the sensory. As a priori forms of sensible intuition, they are the forms of our sensibility and are not determinations that attach to the objects themselves. In other words, they are subjective conditions of sensibility. Through its account of the a priori construction of mathematical concepts in space and time, the transcendental aesthetic gives a preliminary answer to Kant's central question of how synthetic a priori judgment is possible. It has been the basis for many later accounts of its central topics. “The science of all principles of a priori sensibility I call transcendental aesthetic.” Kant, Critique of Pure ... log in or subscribe to read full text