By the same token, all this harping on the autonomy of art-- that is to say, the self-sufficiency of art, the way in which it's not dependent on anything, or as Sidney says, the way in which it's not a serving science existing merely to represent things other than itself, right?--the way in which this is possible for art is, as also our own capacity to be disinterested is, a way of acknowledging that freedom exists: that I am free, that things are free from my instrumental interest in them, so that in general what's implicit in this view of art and this view of human judgment, and what makes it so important in the history of thought, is that once again--and this is not the first time we've brought this up in these lectures and won't be the last-- it's a way of recognizing that in addition to all the other things that we are, some of them wonderful, we are also free. 