Critique of Judgement by Kant Immanuel; Walker Nicholas; Meredith James Creed

Author:Kant, Immanuel; Walker, Nicholas; Meredith, James Creed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Published: 2007-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

Indeed this concept leads reason into an order of things entirely different from that of a mere mechanism of nature, which mere mechanism no longer proves adequate in this domain. An idea must, it is thought, underlie the possibility of the natural product. But this idea is an absolute unity of the representation, whereas the material is a plurality of things that of itself can afford no definite unity of composition. Hence, if that unity of the idea is actually to serve as the a priori determining ground of a natural law of the causality of such a form of the composite, the end of nature must be made to extend to everything contained in its product. For if once we lift such an effect out of the sphere of the blind mechanism of nature and relate it as a whole to a supersensible ground of determination, we must then estimate it out and out on this principle. We have no reason for assuming the form of such a thing to be still partly dependent on blind mechanism, for with such confusion of heterogeneous principles every reliable rule for judging things would disappear.

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