Critik der Urtheilskraft.

KANT (Immanuel).

KANT'S CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT; THE RAREST OF HIS MAIN WORKS.

First edition. 8vo. lviii, 476, [1] pp. Contemporary yellow paper covered boards, spine panelled with simple double-gilt rules, second panel lettered in gilt on red paper label, red sprinkled edges (small one-line manuscript ink notation to front pastedown in an early hand, faint foxing to endpapers extending slightly to outer leaves, main body of text with only occasional faint spots to blank margins, a few isolated instances of pencilled underlining in an early hand with heavier underlining in red crayon to pp. 410-11, contents otherwise generally crisp and quite fresh; spine rather rubbed and chipped with loss to label, corners gently bumped, surface wear to boards to a few small patches of black marking to front cover). Berlin und Libau, Lagarde und Friederich, 1790.

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KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der Urtheilskraft.

The rare first edition of Kant's Critique of Judgement, the third and final of his great Critical works, and certainly the scarcest of his major works.

“The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgement, the second with the teleological judgement or judgement of the purposiveness in Nature; and it is of considerable importance. For in it Kant tries, as far as our consciousness is concerned at least, to bridge the gulf between the mechanistic world of Nature as presented in physical science and the world of morality, freedom and faith. That is to say, he tries to show how the mind passes from the one to the other; and he attempts the rather difficult task of showing how the transition is reasonable without at the same time going back on what he has already said about the vanity of dogmatic metaphysics and about the position of moral or practical faith as our only means of access to the supersensible world” (Copleston, A History of Philosophy VI, 209).

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Critik der Urtheilskraft.

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