Introduces students to "Critique of Judgment", accepted as the foundation of modern aesthetic theory. This book places this philosophical classic in its historical context and shows its relevance to major issues in contemporary aesthetics. It explores the themes of nature, fine art and morality found in the Critique.

The "Routledge Philosophy Guide Book to Kant on Judgment" introduces students to Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgment", widely accepted as the foundation of modern aesthetic theory. It places this philosophical classic in its historical context and shows its relevance to major issues in contemporary aesthetics. Robert Wicks leads the reader through Kant's analysis and deduction of pure judgments of taste, and goes on to explore the themes of nature, fine art and morality found in the Critique. This is the ideal book for anyone coming to Kant's "Critique of Judgment" for the first time.

Preface
A Note on the Available English Translations of the Critique of the Power of Judgment
Introduction
A Guide to the Entire Third Critique
Kant's Philosophical Style
The Historical Composition of the Critique of the Power of Judgment
18th Century Aesthetic Theory Prior to Kant
Chapter 1 -- the pleasure in pure beauty
(AA1-22
AA30-40)
The First Logical Moment:
Judgments of Pure Beauty are Aesthetic and Disinterested (AA1-5)
Aesthetic Judgments vs. Cognitive Judgments
Judgments of Pure Beauty are not Grounded Upon Interests
Varieties of Interest-Grounded Judgments (I):
Judgments of Sensory Gratification
Varieties of Interest-Grounded Judgments (II):
Judgments of Goodness
Varieties of Satisfaction:
Disinterested vs. Interested
The Second Logical Moment:
Judgments of Pure Beauty are Grounded Upon a Universal Feeling of Approval (AA6-9)
Pure Beauty is Based on a Non-Personal, Public Feeling of Approval
Although Judgments of Pure Beauty are not Provable, They Nonetheless Oblige Everyone's Agreement
The Key to the Critique of Taste
The Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties of Understanding and Imagination
The Third Logical Moment:
Judgments of Pure Beauty Reflect Upon How an Object's Configuration Appears to Have Been the Result of an Intelligent Design (AA10-17)
Purposiveness Without Purpose
The Purposiveness of an Object's Form
The Purposiveness of the Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties
Judgments of Pure Beauty are Independent of Emotions and Sensory Charms
Judgments of Pure Beauty are Independent of the Concept of Perfection
Adherent Beauty (I):
The Amalgamation of Pure Beauty and Perfection
Adherent Beauty (II):
Ideal Human Beauty as Moral Expression in a Generically-Formed Human Body
The Fourth Logical Moment:
The Universal Feeling of Approval that Grounds Judgments of Pure Beauty Carries the Force of Necessity (AA18-22)
Scientific Universality, Moral Universality, and the Universality of Cognition in General
The Perfection of Cognition and the Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties
The Perfection of Cognition and the Ideal of Uniformity Amidst Diversity
The Deduction (Legitimation) of Judgments of Pure Beauty (AA30-40)
The Deduction and Our Sensus Communis
The Phenomenology of Cognition in General
Chapter 2:
The Sublime and the Infinite (AA23-29)
Sublimity is Subordinate to Beauty
The Infinite Magnitude of the Mathematically Sublime
The Overwhelming Power of the Dynamically Sublime
Chapter 3:
The Fine Arts and Creative Genius (AA41-54)
Artistic Beauty vs. Natural Beauty
Kant's Theory of Genius
Aesthetic Ideas and the Beauty of Fine Art
Aesthetic Ideas and Natural Beauty
The Division of the Fine Arts
Chapter 4:
Beauty's Confirmation of Science and Morality (AA55-60)
The Antinomy of Taste
Aesthetic Ideas, Genius and the Supersensible Substrate of Nature
Aesthetic Ideas, Genius, and the Supersensible Substrate of the Human Personality
The Unitary Idea of the Supersensible
The Subjectivity of the A Priori Principle of Judgment
Beauty as a Symbol of Morality
Crossing the "Incalculable Gulf" Between Nature and Morality
Beauty as a Symbol of Scientific Completeness
Chapter 5:
Living Organisms, God and Intelligent Design (AA61-91)
Natural Purposes
(AA61-68)
Formal Objective Purposiveness
Material Objective Purposiveness:
External and Internal
Human Purposes, Natural Purposes and Divine Purposes
Nature Itself as a Single, Living Organism
The Compatibility of Science and Morality
(AA69-78)
The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
Four Philosophical Explanations for the Presence of Life
Teleology:
Required for Science and Purposive Towards God
Teleology from a God's-Eye Viewpoint
The Perpetual Mystery of Living Organisms
The Moral Argument for God's Existence
(AA79-91)
Teleology Provides a Method, but not a Proof
The Highest Good as the Ultimate Natural Purpose
The Teleological vs. the Moral Argument for God's Existence
Objects of Faith and the Moral Argument for God's Existence
Conclusion:
The Music of the Spheres and the Idealization of Reason