The realism of purposes: Schelling and Hegel on Kant’s Critique of teleological judgement

• Autores: Luca Illetterati, Andrea Gambarrotto
• Localización: Rivista di estetica, ISSN 0035-6212, Anno 60, n. 74, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Rethinking schelling. Nature, myth, realism), págs. 106-118
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper addresses Schelling’s and Hegel’s interpretation of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgement (1790), focusing especially on the so-called ‘problem of teleology.’ We reconstruct Schelling’s and Hegel’s reading of the second part of the Critique, dedicated to ‘teleological judgement’ and the question of natural purposiveness. We first propose a brief reconstruction of Kant’s argument about the possibility of using teleological judgment with reference to nature; we then show why Hegel and Schelling were unsatisfied with Kant’s argument; Finally, we argue that Schelling’s and Hegel’s dissatisfaction with the Kantian theory of teleological judgement led them to move beyond Kant, towards a different understanding of the relation between epistemology and ontology.