Critique of Judgment

by Kant, Immanuel

• ISBN13: 9780872200258
• ISBN10: 0872200256
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-04-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain natural phenomena as beautiful, says Kant, when we recognise in nature a harmonious order that satisfies the mind's own need for order. The second half of the critique concentrates on the apparent teleology in nature's design of organisms. Kant argues that our minds are inclined to see purpose and order in nature and this is the main principle underlying all of our judgements. Although this might imply a super sensible Designer, Kant insists that we cannot prove a supernatural dimension or the existence of God. Such considerations are beyond reason and are solely the province of faith.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv	(4)
Mary J. Gregor
Translator's Preface	xix	(4)
Translator's Introduction	xxiii
0. Preliminary Note: The Scope of the Critique of Judgment	xxiii	(4)
1. Kant's Life and Works	xxvii	(3)
2. The Critique of Pure Reason	xxx	(9)
3. The Critique of Practical Reason	xxxix	(8)
4. The Critique of Aesthetic Judgment: Background	xlvii	(7)
5. Kant's Account of Judgments of Taste as Aesthetic Judgments of Reflection	liv	(5)
6. The Deduction of Judgments of Taste	lix	(2)
7. Beyond the Deduction: Linking Beauty to Morality	lxi	(5)
8. Beauty and Fine Art	lxvi	(2)
9. Judgments about the Sublime	lxviii	(3)
10. The Critique of Teleological Judgment: Background	lxxi	(5)
11. Kant's Account of Teleological Judgments: Why They Are Needed	lxxvi	(1)
12. Teleological Judgments about Organisms	lxxvii	(4)
13. Is Nature as a Whole a Teleological System?	lxxxi	(2)
14. Moving Beyond Teleological Cognition of Nature	lxxxiii	(3)
15. How the Critique of Judgment Completes the Critical System	lxxxvi