 Kant’s view of music’s relative value as an art has also been an object of critical attention (Weatherston 1996; Parret 1998). Kant ranks the arts according to two distinct criteria. When it comes to “charm and movement of the mind” (Kant 1790: §53), music is first among all of the arts, as it arouses emotions more deeply than any other art form. It is clear that Kant does not consider this criterion particularly important to artistic value. Additionally, music occupies the bottom of the hierarchy when one ranks the arts according to the second criterion, that is, “in terms of the culture that they provide for the mind” (Kant 1790: §53). To provide culture for the mind is described by Kant as to contribute to the enlargement of the faculties of imagination and understanding—think again of an abstract painting, and how it may enrich our capacity to give visible form to some ideas.