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Kant's Critique of Judgement

Immanuel Kant · translated by J. H. Bernard

Kant's third Critique, on the power of judgement: what we claim when we call something beautiful or sublime, and how we judge nature as purposive.

The Critique of Judgement has two parts. The Critique of Aesthetic Judgement analyses judgements of taste, the beautiful, the sublime and genius; the Critique of Teleological Judgement examines the idea of purpose in nature.

This edition is the English translation by J. H. Bernard.

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We proceed quite correctly if, as usual, we divide Philosophy, as containing the principles of the rational cognition of things by means of concepts (not merely, as logic does, principles of the form of thought in general without distinction of Objects), into theoretical and practical. But then the concepts, which furnish their Object to the principles of this rational cognition, must be specifically distinct; otherwise they would not justify a division, which always presupposes a contrast between the principles of the rational cognition belonging to the different parts of a science.

Contents

  1. 01Editor’s Introduction
  2. 02Glossary of Kant’s Philosophical Terms
  3. 03Preface
  4. 04Introduction
  5. 05I. Of the Division of Philosophy
  6. 06II. Of the Realm of Philosophy in General
  7. 07III. Of the Critique of Judgement as a Means of Combining the Two Parts of Philosophy Into a Whole.
  8. 08IV. Of Judgement as a Faculty Legislating a Priori
  9. 09V. The Principle of the Formal Purposiveness of Nature Is a Transcendental Principle of Judgement.
  10. 10VI. Of the Combination of the Feeling of Pleasure with the Concept of the Purposiveness of Nature.
  11. 11VII. Of the Aesthetical Representation of the Purposiveness of Nature.
  12. 12VIII. Of the Logical Representation of the Purposiveness of Nature
  13. 13IX. Of the Connexion of the Legislation of Understanding with That of Reason by Means of the Judgement
  14. 14The Critique of Judgement
  15. 15Part I Critique of the Aesthetical Judgement
  16. 16First Division Analytic of the Aesthetical Judgement
  17. 17First Book Analytic of the Beautiful
  18. 18First Moment of the Judgement of Taste12 According to Quality
  19. 19Explanation of the Beautiful Resulting from the First Moment
  20. 20Second Moment of the Judgement of Taste, Viz. According to Quantity
  21. 21Explanation of the Beautiful Resulting from the Second Moment
  22. 22Third Moment of Judgements of Taste, According to the Relation of the Purposes Which Are Brought Into Consideration Therein.
  23. 23Explanation of the Beautiful Derived from This Third Moment
  24. 24Fourth Moment of the Judgement of Taste, According to the Modality of the Satisfaction in the Object
  25. 25Explanation of the Beautiful Resulting from the Fourth Moment
  26. 26General Remark on the First Section of the Analytic
  27. 27Second Book Analytic of the Sublime
  28. 28A.—Of the Mathematically Sublime
  29. 29B.—Of the Dynamically Sublime in Nature
  30. 30General Remark Upon the Exposition of the Aesthetical Reflective Judgement
  31. 31Deduction of [Pure64] Aesthetical Judgements
  32. 32Second Division Dialectic of the Aesthetical Judgement
  33. 33The Critique of Judgement
  34. 34Part II Critique of the Teleological Judgement
  35. 35First Division Analytic of the Teleological Judgement
  36. 36Second Division Dialectic of the Teleological Judgement
  37. 37Methodology of the Teleological Judgement.119
  38. 38General remark on Teleology
  39. 39Works on Philosophy
  40. 40Transcriber’s Notes

About this edition

Author
Immanuel Kant
Translator
J. H. Bernard
Era
Early modern (c. 1500–1800)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
439 pages
First published
1790
This edition
Modern Philosophers