Kant's Critique of Judgment The purpose of this resear

The purpose of this research is to explore Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, also known as the Third Critique, after the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. The plan of the research will be to set forth the principal arguments in the first two critiques, and then to examine, by way of comparison and reference, how the Critique of Judgment both complements and extends the range of meanings in the earlier works. Throughout, reference will be made to the role of rational processes and experience in mediating, explaining, or otherwise making connections that have the effect of illustrating the cohesiveness of Kant's philosophical method and organizational approach. To appreciate the objectives of Critique of Judgment, it is useful to look at its relationship to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason.

In Critique of Pure Reason Kant makes a case for intuition as a valid category and determinant of human knowledge. As Beck points out, intuition for Kant is not a mystical concept but the name given to sense perception, "which involves having a sensation caused by an object and interpreting this sensation as a sign of the presence and kind of object which affected us" (Beck 89). Beyond mere description and classification, however, Kant makes the case that the human being can trust his intuitions, can in effect trust the moral weight of the reactions generated when sense experiences singly or in combination wash over him

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, then it is merely reflective (Korner 176). Significantly, Kant does place a construction on the notion of determinant judgment, seeing its authenticity as predicated of what Nature provides as a given. It is understood that the perception of universal principles has been arrived at by way of reason and rational process. In effect, determinant judgment is that which is fairly inarguable, and it describes a condition of the rational being in situ. One can worry of course about whether the principles have been arrived at rationally, but that ought to be settled by a careful reading of the Critique of Pure Reason. Determinant judgment is, however, on the whole far less problematic from the standpoint of moral action than its counterpart, reflective judgment. For in the concept of reflective judgment is contained a whole range of processes that have the effect of bridging the gap between the moral sphere and the natural sphere. One aspect of the process is its artificiality, or the necessity of its projection onto the natural world by way of the assertion of a rational being's will. This can be problematic, however, for the reason that nature and reason as experienced by the rational being may conflict. Yet reflective judgment may

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