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In the wake of a newly awakened interest in Kant’s biological teleology, this paper aims to examine his idea of biological teleology by resorting to a natural purposiveness and its relation to morality. In “Critique of the Teleological Judgment” in Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that nature must be judged as if it were purposively designed for our faculty of judgment. Drawing upon Critique of Judgment and a varied range of secondary texts on Kant’s natural purposiveness, this paper explores the fact that determinant explanations of organisms on the basis of theoretical reason are supplemented with reflective judgments concerning their ends. It also discusses questions concerning the external purposiveness or usefulness of one species of life to another that could not be resolved without knowledge of a final purpose. This paper concludes that culture is a final purpose of nature which prepares man to transcend the purely natural purposes and to become a final purpose as a moral being. In culture is the transcendent highest good of the first two Critiques relocated to a highest good in this world.
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Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, Purposiveness, Reflective Judgment, final purpose of nature, ultimate purpose, culture
