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Teleological reflexive judgement and its relationship with the feeling of pleasure and displeasure

After establishing a general connection between the power of judgment and the feeling of pleasure and displeasure in the "First Introduction" to the Critique of the Power of Judgment, in the "Published Introduction", Kant proceeds to restrict this connection gradually to aesthetic judgments and to judgments that deal with the systematization of nature. This restriction leaves teleological judgments out of the formerly established general connection. The aim of the article is to give an account of the necessary procedures that had to be adopted by the reader of Critique of the Power of Judgment in order to maintain the connection between teleological judgments and the feeling of pleasure, namely a connection that, in principle, all reflecting judgments were meant to have.

Kant; reflecting judgment; teological judgment; finality principle; feeling of pleasure and displeasure; moral action


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