Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Judgement Book

Preface and Acknowledgments     ix
A Note on the English Translations of the Critique of the Power of Judgment     xiii
Introduction     1
A guide to the entire third Critique     1
Kant's philosophical style     3
The historical composition of the Critique of the Power of Judgment     8
Eighteenth-century aesthetic theory prior to Kant     11
The pleasure in pure beauty ([section section] 1-22; section section 30-40)     15
The first logical moment: judgments of pure beauty are aesthetic and disinterested ([section section] 1-5)     18
The second logical moment: judgments of pure beauty are grounded upon a universal feeling of approval ([section section] 6-9)     29
The third logical moment: judgments of pure beauty reflect upon how an object's configuration appears to have been the result of an intelligent design ([section section] 10-17)     45
The fourth logical moment: the universal feeling of approval that grounds judgments of pure beauty carries the force of necessity ([section section] 18-22)     76
The Deduction (Legitimation) of Judgments of Pure Beauty ([section section] 30-40)     81
The sublime and the infinite ([section section] 23-29)     94
Sublimity is subordinate to beauty     94
The infinite magnitude of the mathematically sublime     100
The overwhelming power of the dynamically sublime     105
The fine arts and creative genius ([section section] 41-54)     112
Artistic beauty vs. natural beauty     112
Kant's theory of genius     122
Aesthetic ideas and the beauty of fine art     127
Aesthetic ideas and natural beauty     134
The division of the fine arts     136
Beauty's confirmation of science and morality ([section section] 55-60)     144
The antinomy of taste     144
Aesthetic ideas, genius, and the supersensible substrate of nature     158
Aesthetic ideas, genius, and the supersensible substrate of the human personality     163
The unitary idea of the supersensible     164
The subjectivity of the priori principle of judgment     166
Beauty as a symbol of morality     170
Crossing the "incalculable gulf" between nature and morality     176
Beauty as a symbol of scientific completeness     181
Living organisms, God, and intelligent design ([section section] 61-91)     184
Natural purposes ([section section] 61-68)     184
The compatibility of science and morality ([section section] 69-78)     209
The moral argument for God's existence ([section section] 79-91)      233
Conclusion: the music of the spheres and the idealization of reason     257
Notes     262
Bibliography     273
Index     280