KANT (Immanuel).
Critik der Urtheilskraft.
The second edition of the Critique of Judgement, the third and final of Kant’s great Critiques. Originally published two years earlier in 1790, the present edition is an unauthorised pirated printing that preceded the official second edition, published in Berlin in 1793.
‘The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgement, the second with the teleological judgement or judgement of the purposiveness in Nature; and it is of considerable importance. For in it Kant tries, as far as our consciousness is concerned at least, to bridge the gulf between the mechanistic world of Nature as presented in physical science and the world of morality, freedom and faith. That is to say, he tries to show how the mind passes from the one to the other; and he attempts the rather difficult task of showing how the transition is reasonable without at the same time going back on what he has already said about the vanity of dogmatic metaphysics and about the position of moral or practical faith as our only means of access to the supersensible world’ (Copleston, A History of Philosophy VI, 209).
Warda, 126.
