The Critique of the power of Judgment (a ,pre accirate rendotion of what has hitherto been translated in to English as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great Critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. In the third Critique Kant unified the principles of human cognition and conduct expunded in the first two Crotiques. He agrued that in scientific inquiry, in moral and practical conduct, and even in the the experience of such aesthetic phenomena as the beautiful and the sublime as well as in the creation of art, human beings must be understood as autonomous agents whose thoughts and actions are grounded on principles independent of experience but who are also at home and effective in nature.
Kant thus revealed a deep unity where previously the cusal realm of natur and free domain of human intentions had been thought unrelated. The third Critque argues against the division of human thought and conduct and offers an integrated picture of the human condition in which we can only make sense of ourselves if we believe that our autonomy of will and imagination can be effective in nature. This powerful new description of the human condition was to exert a deep dinfluence on such writers as Schiller and Schopenhauer, and would also shape conceptions of science from Goethe to the present day.
- General editors' preface
- Editor's introduction
- Background:The possibility of a critique of taste and teleology
- An outline of the work
- The composition and publication of the work
- Note on the translation
Bibliography
- First Introduction to the Critique of the Power of Fudgment
- Critique of the Power of Fudgment
- Preface
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