A Cooperative Reading of Kant's Critique of Judgement
From Chapel Hill History of Philosophy
This "slow-read" of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement is the first project of the CHHoPwiki group. The project has both philosophical and technological components. On the philosophical side, the main aim and primary focus of the group is to read and discuss the Critique of Judgement with a view finding (or achieving consensus on) the truth regarding the issues and topics Kant explores. Technologically, this slow-read is relatively unique because it uses of Wiki technology to carry it out. We know of no comparable efforts at this time. Wiki technology is a novel remix of existing Web technologies that seems to be a good fit for slow-reading projects. This project may provide a useful test of that hypothesis.
We began with some initial agreements about the process, and a basic plan on how to implement the goals and methods of that approach using Wiki technology. Specifically, CHHoPwiki uses the MediaWiki engine that underlies the Wikipedia and a wide range other major Wiki efforts.
The two key points about this implementation are (1) that we will be using the Meredith translation as presented on-line by eHarmony as the basis of the read, using that labeling scheme as the basis of our system of reference and (2) that the default unit of discourse will be a paragraph of the text, which means that in the typical case, each paragraph will have its own CHHoPwiki page. Creating "a page" using the MediaWiki engine creates a triplet of pages -- an "article" page, a discussion page, and a history page -- each paragraph in our slow-read of the 3rd Critique will have such a triplet. Look at any of the section paragraphs of the Kantian text below (e.g. SS 4.1) to see how this works.
The table of contents below maps out the entire of Critique of Judgment. All the discussion and commentary for this slow-read can be accessed via that table of contents. We have also created a separate page for Collateral Matters, i.e. things that came up during the slow-read, but which don't really fit into the flow of the discussion which is directed to the text.
FIRST PART. CRITIQUE OF AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT
SECTION I. ANALYTIC OF AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT.
BOOK I. Analytic of the Beautiful.
FIRST MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of Quality.(SS 1-5)
- SS 1. The judgement of taste is aesthetic.
- SS 2. The delight which determines the judgement of taste is independent of all interest.
- SS 3. Delight in the agreeable is coupled with interest.
- SS 4. Delight in the good is coupled with interest.
- SS 5. Comparison of the three specifically different kinds of delight.
SECOND MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of Quantity.(SS 6-9)
- SS 6. The beautiful is that which, apart from concepts, is represented as the Object of a universal delight.
- SS 7. Comparison of the beautiful with the agreeable and the good by means of the above characteristic.
- SS 8. In a judgement of taste the universality of delight is only represented as subjective.
- SS 9. Investigation of the question of the relative priority in a judgement of taste of the feeling of pleasure and the estimating of the object.
THIRD MOMENT. Of Judgements of Taste: Moment of the relation of the Ends brought under Review in such Judgements. (SS 10-17)
- SS 10. Finality in general.
- SS 11. The sole foundation of the judgement of taste is the form of finality of an object (or mode of representing it).
- SS 12. The judgement of taste rests upon a priori grounds.
- SS 13. The pure judgement of taste is independent of charm and emotion.
- SS 14. Exemplification.
- SS 15. The judgement of taste is entirely independent of the concept of perfection.
- SS 16. A judgement of taste by which an object is described as beautiful, under the condition of a definite concept, is not pure.
- SS 17. Ideal of beauty.
- Definition of the Beautiful Derived from this Third Moment.
FOURTH MOMENT. Of the Judgement of Taste: Moment of the Modality of the Delight in the Object.(SS 18-22)
- SS 18. Nature of the modality in a judgement of taste.
- SS 19. The subjective necessity attributed to a judgement of taste is conditioned.
- SS 20. The condition of the necessity advanced by a judgement of taste is the idea of a common sense.
- SS 21. Have we reason for presupposing a common sense?
- SS 22. The necessity of the universal assent that is thought in a judgement of taste, is a subjective necessity which, under the presupposition of a common sense, is represented as objective.
- Definition of the Beautiful drawn from the Fourth Moment
- General Remark on the First Section of the Analytic.
BOOK II. Analytic of the Sublime. (SS 23-24)
- SS 23. Transition from the faculty of estimating the beautiful to that of estimating the sublime.
- SS 24. Subdivision of an investigation of the feeling of the sublime.
A. The Mathematically Sublime. (SS 25-27)
- SS 25. Definition of the term “sublime�.
- SS 26. The estimation of the magnitude of natural things requisite for the idea of the sublime.
- SS 27. Quality of the delight in our estimate of the sublime.
B. The dynamically sublime in nature. (SS 28-54)
- SS 28. Nature as Might.
- SS 29. Modality of the judgement on the sublime in nature.
- General Remark upon the Exposition of Aesthetic Reflective Judgements.
- Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgements.
- SS 30. The deduction of aesthetic judgements upon objects of nature must not be directed to what we call sublime in nature, but only to the beautiful.
- SS 31. Of the method of the deduction of judgements of taste.
- SS 32. First peculiarity of the judgement of taste.
- SS 33. Second peculiarity of the judgement of taste.
- SS 34. An objective principle of taste is not possible.
- SS 35. The principle of taste is the subjective principle of the general power of judgement.
- SS 36. The problem of a deduction of judgements of taste.
- SS 37. What exactly it is that is asserted a priori of an object in a judgement of taste.
- SS 38. Deduction of judgements of taste.
- Remark.
- SS 39. The communicability of a sensation.
- SS 40. Taste as a kind of sensus communis.
- SS 41. The empirical interest in the beautiful.
- SS 42. The intellectual interest in the beautiful.
- SS 43. Art in general.
- SS 44. Fine art
- SS 45. Fine art is an art, so far as it has at the same time the appearance of being nature.
- SS 46. Fine art is the art of genius.
- SS 47. Elucidation and confirmation of the above explanation of genius.
- SS 48. The relation of genius to taste.
- SS 49. The faculties of the mind which constitute genius.
- SS 50. The combination of taste and genius in products of fine art.
- SS 51. The division of the fine arts.
- SS 52. The combination of the fine arts in one and the same product.
- SS 53. Comparative estimate of the aesthetic worth of the fine arts.
- SS 54. Remark.
SECTION II. DIALECTIC OF AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT. (SS 55-60)
- SS 55.
- SS 56. Representation of the antinomy of taste.
- SS 57. Solution of the antinomy of taste.
- SS 58. The idealism of the finality alike of nature and of art, as the unique principle of the aesthetic judgement.
- SS 59. Beauty as the symbol of morality.
- SS 60. APPENDIX. The methodology of taste.
PART II CRITIQUE OF THE TELEOLOGICAL JUDGEMENT (SS 61)
- SS 61. Of the objective purposiveness of Nature
FIRST DIVISION ANALYTIC OF THE TELEOLOGICAL JUDGEMENT (SS 62-68)
- SS 62. Of the objective purposiveness which is merely formal as distinguished from that which is material
- SS 63. Of the relative, as distinguished from the inner, purposiveness of nature
- SS 64. Of the peculiar character of things as natural purposes
- SS 65. Things regarded as natural purposes are organised beings
- SS 66. Of the principle of judging of internal purposiveness in organised beings
- SS 67. Of the principle of the teleological judging of nature in general as a system of purposes
- SS 68. Of the principle of Teleology as internal principle of natural science
SECOND DIVISION DIALECTIC OF THE TELEOLOGICAL JUDGEMENT (SS 69-78)
- SS 69. What is an antinomy of the Judgement?
- SS 70. Representation of this antinomy
- SS 71. Preliminary to the solution of the above antinomy
- SS 72. Of the different systems which deal with the purposiveness of nature
- SS 73. None of the above systems give what they pretend
- SS 74. The reason that we cannot treat the concept of a Technic of nature dogmatically is the fact that a natural purpose is inexplicable
- SS 75. The concept of an objective purposiveness of nature is a critical principle of Reason for the reflective Judgement
- SS 76. Remark
- SS 77. Of the peculiarity of the human Understanding, by means of which the concept of a natural purpose is possible
- SS 78. Of the union of the principle of the universal mechanism of matter with the teleological principle in the Technic of nature.
METHODOLOGY OF THE TELEOLOGICAL JUDGEMENT. (SS 79-91)
- SS 79. Whether teleology must be treated as if it belonged to the doctrine of nature
- SS 80. Of the necessary subordination of the mechanical to the teleological principle in the explanation of a thing as a natural purpose.
- SS 81. Of the association of mechanism with the teleological principle in the explanation of a natural purpose as a natural product.
- SS 82. Of the teleological system in the external relations of organised beings
- SS 83. Of the ultimate purpose of nature as a teleological system
- SS 84. Of the final purpose of the existence of a world, i.e. of creation itself
- SS 85. Of Physico-theology
- SS 86. Of Ethico-theology
- + Remark
- SS 87. Of the moral proof of the Being of God
- SS 88. Limitation of the validity of the moral proof
- + Remark
- SS 89. Of the use of the moral argument
- SS 90. Of the kind of belief in a teleological proof of the Being of God
- SS 91. Of the kind of belief produced by a practical faith
- + General remark on Teleology
