Critique of Judgment

The *Critique of Judgment* completes Kant's critical system by analyzing the faculty of judgment — our power to relate the particular to the universal. Part I develops the Analytic of the Beautiful and the Sublime: beauty as a disinterested pleasure in form, sublimity as the mind's recognition of its own freedom in the face of overwhelming magnitude or power. Part II considers organisms and the apparent purposiveness of nature, defending a regulative use of teleology that does not commit us to dogmatic claims about a divine designer. The work has been the starting point for modern aesthetics and philosophy of biology.