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Cosmological Thinking in Kant’s Critique of Judgment: Thinking the End and Avoiding the End

In: Research in Phenomenology
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Angelica Nuzzo Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, CUNY New York, NY USA

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24 Feb 2025
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Abstract

This essay discusses the “cosmological” issue of the End in the second part of Kant’s Critique of Judgment. At stake is the problem of thinking, reflectively and according to the principle of nature’s formal purposiveness, the end of life and the end of Nature as a whole. The claim is that Kant’s transcendental investigation, generally oriented to the question of “origin,” labors to block out the issue of the End. This is particularly remarkable and indeed problematic in the Critique of Judgment, which is concerned thematically with the topic of life and living nature.

Title:
Cosmological Thinking in Kant’s Critique of Judgment: Thinking the End and Avoiding the End
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341558
Language:
English
Pages:
1–16
Keywords:
End; death; life; matter; final end; purposiveness
In:
Research in Phenomenology
In:
Volume 55: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1569-1640
Print ISSN:
0085-5553
Subjects:
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Epistemology & Metaphysics

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