Luigi Caranti
Logical Purposiveness and the Principle of Taste
In both Introductions to the Critique of Judgment Kant seems
to identify the a priori principle at the basis of aesthetic
judgments with the principle that guides reflective judgment in its cognitive
inquiry of nature, i.e. the purposiveness of nature or systematicity. For
instance Kant writes:
In a critique of judgment, the part that deals with aesthetic judgment
belongs to it essentially. For this power alone contains a principle that
judgment lays completely a priori at the basis of its reflection on
nature: the principle of a formal purposiveness of nature in terms of its
particular (empirical) laws, for our cognitive power.
Kant-Studien, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 0022-8877
Volume: 96, 09/2005
Pages: 364 - 374
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