יום ב' 30.03.2009 , 18:00 - 20:00
חדר 449 בנין גילמן

במסגרת קולוקוויום בר הילל

Professor Rachel Zuckert, ,
Northwestern University

Kant on Beauty and Biology in the Critique of Judgment

Commentator: Eli Fridlander, Tel-Aviv Univeristy

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The two central topics of Kant's Critique of Judgment are aesthetic judgments -- our experience and judgments of natural and artistic beauty -- and teleological judgments -- our judgments concerning the behavior of organisms. In this paper, I investigate why it is that Kant treats these two sorts of judgments together, what he might think is the dominant, important commonality between them. In line with Kant's own claims, I suggest that the commonality lies in the employment of the principle of purposiveness in both judgments: in judging organic behavior, we claim that the object acts purposively, is ordered purposively; in aesthetic judgment, by contrast, we ourselves judge purposively.

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