𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔨 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔘𝔯𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔦𝔩𝔰𝔨𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱 #26 - Three Critiques in One

FYI TO PEOPLE NEW TO THE GROUP

This group is conducting an in-depth analysis of the text and discussion is centered on that. We always welcome newcomers who want to learn about Kant, but ours is not the place for general philosophy discussion. I do reserve thirty minutes near the end for broader discussion, so save these comments for then OR join me early before the meeting starts if you have general comments or questions.

IN OUR LAST MEETING

So this dialectic of the aesthetic which we just read involved all three critiques. It demonstrates how difficult this third critique is to understand without some knowledge of the first two. Here's were the highlights.

• There are ideas that correspond to aesthetic judgment and ideas that correspond to practical judgment.
• Aesthetic ideas can be demonstrated, but not explained, while transcendent ideas can be explained but not demonstrated.
• To demonstrate means to show in intuition.
• In order for a judgment to be communicated, it must be based on some principle that grounds understanding.
• Aesthetic judgment is based on a subjective universal a priori principle.

FOR NEXT TIME

We are first going to review an earlier section, §15, concerning perfection and aesthetic judgment, and then we will discuss Sections 58, 59, AND we will get started on the second half of the book concerning teleology. So please read/review the following:

§15 - Judgment of Taste Independent of Perfection
§58 - On the Idea of Purpose in Nature
§59 - On Beauty as a Symbol of Morality
§60 - Appendix to the first half of the book on taste
§61 - On the objective purposiveness of nature

06/29/25 - Session 26 - Review §15 and finish the section on taste
07/13;25 - Session 27 - Start the section on teleology
07/27/25 - Session 28 - Start the Analytic of Teleology

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

My slides. They are a work in progress. And far from complete.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xUHfISzIjpPxF9Zf_fkVniM3Q6xr3ROG/view?usp=share_link

My blog, with essays about Critique of Judgment:

COJ #1.5 - There's practical and then there's practical

https://open.substack.com/pub/geraldpriddle/p/15-kants-critique-of-judgment?r=2rot22&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

COJ #2 - Abstracting from Philosophies to Cognitions

https://geraldpriddle.substack.com/p/2-critique-of-judgment?r=2rot22

COJ #3 - Abstracting from Cognitions to Faculties

https://geraldpriddle.substack.com/p/3-developing-a-transcendental-philosophy?r=2rot22

FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IMMANUEL KANT

In addition to this meetup about Critique of Judgment, I am hosting another meetup about the Critique of Pure Reason on alternating Sundays. Here's the next meeting to that for anyone interested.

https://www.meetup.com/the-toronto-philosophy-meetup/events/308410108/

COPR Essay #1 on the synthetic a priori -

https://geraldpriddle.substack.com/p/critique-of-pure-reason-1?r=2rot22

Groundwork Essay #1 on the relevance of Kantian architectonics to practical philosophy -

https://open.substack.com/pub/geraldpriddle/p/1-kants-groundwork-to-a-metaphysics?r=2rot22&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true