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Full Idea
The Critique of Judgement aims to show how judgement functions 'according to the principle of the appropriateness of nature to our capacity for cognition'. It is meant to provide a principle of the unity of humankind and nature.
Gist of Idea
The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature
Source
report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement II: Teleological [1790]) by Andrew Bowie - German Philosophy: a very short introduction 1
Book Ref
Bowie,Andrew: 'German Philosophy: very short intro' [OUP 2010], p.19
A Reaction
Hence this work is often overlooked as a key part of Kant's 'system'. At first he probably didn't realise he was creating a system. Kant set an agenda for the philosophy of the ensuing thirty years.
Related Idea
Idea 22052 Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws [Bowie on Kant]
| 18239 | What is contemplated must have a higher value than contemplation [Kant, by Korsgaard] |
| 22053 | The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature [Kant, by Bowie] |
| 18237 | Without men creation would be in vain, and without final purpose [Kant] |
| 18238 | Only a good will can give man's being, and hence the world, a final purpose [Kant] |