Kant and Teleology

Kant's mature teleological philosophy in the Critique of the Power of Judgment is predicated on innovations that address a set of unprecedented challenges arising from within critical philosophy. This Element argues that it cannot be understood without a fully systematic account of these challenges and innovations.

List of contents

1. Kant's critical teleology; 2. Philosophy of Biology or critique of judgment?; 3. Purposiveness as transcendental principle; 4. The transcendental deduction of the principle of nature's purposiveness; 5. Nature's Saltūs; References.

Summary

Kant's mature teleological philosophy in the Critique of the Power of Judgment is predicated on innovations that address a set of unprecedented challenges arising from within critical philosophy. This Element argues that it cannot be understood without a fully systematic account of these challenges and innovations.

Foreword

This Element develops Kant's teleology systematically, justifying its principle and the flow of aesthetic and biological judgments.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Teufel, Thomas (City University of New York) Teufel, Teufel Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781108438551
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43855-1
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge