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3 - Is the Critique of Judgment “Post-Critical”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2009

Sally Sedgwick
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Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
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Dualism, formalism, subjectivism: These for Hegel constitute the unholy trinity of the Kantian philosophy, the grounds for characterizing it in Glauben und Wissen as a “philosophy of reflection,” as opposed to a speculative philosophy, which is alone capable of doing justice to the nature of reason. In this same work, however, Hegel also claims to find in the third Critique, particularly in the conceptions of reflective judgment and the intuitive understanding, an anticipation of the speculative principle of the identity of subject and object, thought and being. Moreover, this privileging of the third Critique is not merely a passing phase of the young Hegel; for in his later writings he continued to regard the intuitive intellect as a genuine anticipation of the concrete universal and he attributed to it the functions of grounding the purposiveness of nature, the beautiful in art, and the ultimate unity of nature and freedom. To be sure, in spite of his positive appraisal of certain aspects of the Critique of Judgment, Hegel remained highly critical of Kant's procedure in that work as a whole, suggesting that he failed to grasp the implications of his own insights and thus lapsed back into a disastrous subjectivism. Nevertheless, the fact remains that for both the young and the mature Hegel the third Critique was seen as postcritical in essential respects, as pointing the way to a new, more adequate mode of philosophizing.

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The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy
Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel
, pp. 78 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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