The Resolution of the Antinomy of the Teleological Judgment: can we assert that the Intelligent World-Cause has an Intuitive Understanding?

CLAUDIA JÁUREGUI

Catania

Congreso; VIII Multilateral Kant Colloquium; 2018

Università degli Studi di Catania

In the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Kant underlines that all appearance of an antinomy between the mechanical maxim and the teleological maxim rests on confusing a fundamental principle of the reflecting with that of the determining power of judgment. Nevertheless, it seems that the complete resolution of the conflict does not simply consist in the detection of this confusion. Kant often remarks that the principle of the unification of the two principles must be placed in the supersensible. The aim of the work I am presenting is to examine this second aspect of the resolution of the antinomy. In this context, I particularly intend to elucidate to what extent the reference to an intuitive understanding can be considered an enlargement of the concept of an intelligent cause of the world that is productive in accordance with intentions.