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- Title
Kant's Natural Teleology? The Case of Physical Geography.
- Authors
Clewis, Robert R.
- Abstract
The article comprehensively examines Kant's conceptions of organisms, animals, nature's agency, and apparent design in essays and physical geography Nachschriften from the 1750s to 1790s: manuscripts 'Holstein', 'Kaehler', 'Dönhoff', and 'Dohna'. The methodological distinctions between empirical science and pure, transcendental philosophy, and between popular, worldly philosophy and scholastic philosophy, are crucial for understanding his use of teleological principles in the geography course. Kant applies teleological principles to nature in a rather 'direct' fashion in these lectures, although this should not be taken to mean that he considers the teleological judging of organisms to be incompatible with judging them mechanistically.
- Subjects
PHYSICAL geography; PHILOSOPHY; MANUSCRIPTS; TELEOLOGY; FINALISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
Kant-Studien, 2016, Vol 107, Issue 2, p314
- ISSN
0022-8877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kant-2016-0018