Kant's Critique of Judgement
The Critique of Judgement, published in 1790, completes the trilogy of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy and bridges the worlds of nature and freedom treated in the first two. Its first part is the foundation of modern aesthetics: Kant analyzes judgments of taste, which claim universal agreement yet rest on no concept, distinguishes the beautiful from the agreeable and the good, examines the sublime in nature, and considers genius and the fine arts. The second part turns to teleology, asking in what sense living organisms can be understood as having purposes and how natural science can use the idea of design without claiming to prove it. J. H. Bernard's translation, with his introduction, has served English readers since 1892. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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