CartKants Critique of Judgment:
Purposiveness, the Beautiful, and the Sublime Instructor: Franziska Aigner Date & Time: August 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th. 09:00-11:30 ET
DESCRIPTION: For this Seminar, we will read Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), also known as the third Critique. Despite Kant’s earlier claim to have enumerated, in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), all of the universal and necessary principles of the objectivity of objects, the later Critique of the Power of Judgment deals with several “unruly things.” This is necessary since there are, Kant claims, several things that resist the supposedly universal and necessary conditions of objects of experience put forward in the Critique of Pure Reason. Upon encountering one of these unruly things, we are puzzled. But how is it possible to encounter such unruly things in experience and thus as part of nature, while it is at the same time impossible to a priori account for their possibility?
In this Seminar, we will look at Kant’s claim that there is a specific sense in which one can “make sense” of such unruly things. It might not be possible to cognize these unruly things, specified as living and beautiful things. Still, by introducing a difference between determining and reflecting judgment, a difference that had not yet been in place in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that it is nevertheless possible to reflectively judge (beurteilen) them according to an altogether different principle. As we will see, this principle is called purposiveness (Zweckmäßigkeit). This two-part Seminar will introduce the Critique of the Power of Judgment within the context of Kant’s overall project before focusing on the Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment, the book’s first part. We will look at the function and structure of aesthetic judgment and purposiveness, before spending one Seminar each on the meaning and function of the Seminar and the sublime within Kant’s critical philosophy. This Seminar will be followed by a second part, focused on the Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment.
The Seminar will take place in English and work with the English translations of Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy provided by Cambridge University Press:
–Kant, Immanuel, 2000. Critique of the Power of Judgment. Translated by P. Guyer, E. Matthews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
–Kant, I., 1998. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated into English by Guyer and Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
–Kant, Immanuel, 1996. Critique of Practical Reason, in Practical Philosophy. Translated by M.J. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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