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"A novel approach which relates Kant's seminal work, Critique of Judgment, to issues in his moral philosophy, but also art, history, culture, and religion. It will be of interest not only to specialists and graduate students of Kant studies but also to those working in other areas of the humanities"--
List of contents
Part I. The Highest Good and the Postulates: 1. Kant's justification of the 'fact of reason' and the objective reality of freedom from a 'practical point of view'; 2. 'The highest good and the realism of moral Glaube; 3. Reflective judgment and the realism of the 'moral image'; Part II. Aesthetic Judgment and the 'Moral Image'; 4. Beauty as a symbol of morality: the 'moral image' of the 'supersensible without'; 5. The free harmony of the faculties and the primacy of imagination in Kant's aesthetic judgment: the 'moral image' of the 'supersensible within'; 6. Genius, ugliness, and nonsense: Kant on the purity of the ugly and the failure of the artist's power of judgement; Part III. Teleological Judgment and the 'Moral Image': 7. Kant's account of nature's systematicity and the unity of theoretical and practical reason; 8. Organisms as 'natural ends' and reflective judgment's 'image' of externalized freedom; 9. Kant's teleological philosophy of history.
About the author
Lara Ostaric is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is the editor of Interpreting Schelling: Critical Essays (Cambridge, 2014).
Summary
A novel approach which relates Kant's seminal work, Critique of Judgment, to issues in his moral philosophy, but also art, history, culture, and religion. It will be of interest not only to specialists and graduate students of Kant studies but also to those working in other areas of the humanities.
Foreword
Argues that Kant's seminal Critique of Judgment is properly understood as completing his critical system.
