Critiques of Teleological Judgement

The question of judging organized beings is central to the second half of the Critique of Judgment . In his essay on teleological principles, Kant had argued that organized nature requires us to think an intelligent supersensible cause if we are to avoid appeals to blind purposiveness or intelligent nature. The Critique of Teleological Judgment expands on this argument by establishing the necessity that we judge organized beings teleologically, and demonstrating that every alternative means for explaining natural purposes fails. This argument, at the heart of the Critique of Judgment , is directed explicitly against Herder and Spinozistic naturalism. It is here that we find Kant explicitly and extensively criticizing Spinoza. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.