Full Idea
In the first Critique, nature is just a system of necessary laws.
Gist of Idea
Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws
Source
comment on Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Andrew Bowie - German Philosophy: a very short introduction 1
Book Reference
Bowie,Andrew: 'German Philosophy: very short intro' [OUP 2010], p.18
A Reaction
This seems to have provoked rebellion in Schiller and the early Romantics, and Kant tried to add teleology to his picture of nature. Leibniz saw nature as dimly alive, and Schiller focused on organisms. Biology is not very lawlike.
Related Idea
Idea 22053 The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature [Kant, by Bowie]