Should these universal aesthetic Ideas be organized in a general aesthetics, they could then be applied in different material spheres, e.g., of color, tone, figure, but also, crucially, of relations of the will. Such specific ramifications of the paradigms are called “techniques” (Kunstlehren) or “practical sciences” (SW IV: 47). The discipline dealing with the paradigmatic elements of approbation or disapprobation of relations of will is practical philosophy, i.e., ethics, to which we now turn.