Practical Faith and Theoretical Practice: The Single Logic Underlying Kant’s Deduction of Nature’s Purposiveness and the Deduction of the Highest Good
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Khafiz Kerimov
Abstract
The present article argues that a single logic underlies Kant’s deduction of nature’s purposiveness in the Critique of Judgment and the deduction of the highest good in the Critique of Practical Reason. Both deductions are, as I would term it, transcendental deductions of success: a “success” deduction establishes the conditions for the realizability of a goal or an activity. Kant’s first developed “success” deduction is the deduction of the highest good: if the promotion of the highest good is practically necessary, then the conditions for its possibility (the existence of God) must be postulated. In the third Critique, however, the same logic is applied to theoretical cognition of empirical nature: if cognition of nature’s forms is to be possible, then nature must be assumed as purposively designed (for human cognition). Thus, I argue that in the third Critique Kant treats theoretical cognition as a practical activity, or, pari passu, Kant employs the “success” deduction model in both practical and theoretical contexts. Finally, I consider Kant’s transcendental deduction of success against the backdrop of his transcendental deduction of the categories
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- Nachruf auf Karl Ameriks (1947–2025)
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- The Logical Use of Reason in the First Critique and Its Connection with the Reflective Power of Judgment
- Practical Faith and Theoretical Practice: The Single Logic Underlying Kant’s Deduction of Nature’s Purposiveness and the Deduction of the Highest Good
- Der Platz der ‚Obersten Einteilung des Naturrechts‘ (AA 06: 242.12–19) in Kants Rechtslehre
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- Introduction: Kant and the Berlin Academy
- L’évaluation critique du concept de monade de Béguelin à Kant
- Johann Christoph Schwab et le kantisme
- The Story of a Phantom Conflict: The Dispute over Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Second Round of the Kant-Eberhard Controversy
- Saving Metaphysics: Kant and the Berlin Academy’s Reception of Critical Philosophy
- Mitteilungen zur Logiknachschrift Volckmanns
- Bibliographie
- Kant-Bibliographie 2023
- Buchbesprechungen
- Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: L’Avènement de la métaphysique kantienne. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023, 351 pages. ISBN: 978-2406148173.
- Kants Schriften in Übersetzungen. Hrsg. von Gisela Schlüter. Hamburg: Meiner, 2020, 872 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7873-3858-0. [Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Sonderheft 15.]
- Mitteilungen
- Gutachter-Dank
- Jahresinhalt Kant-Studien Jg. 116, 2025
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Nachruf auf Karl Ameriks (1947–2025)
- Abhandlungen
- The Logical Use of Reason in the First Critique and Its Connection with the Reflective Power of Judgment
- Practical Faith and Theoretical Practice: The Single Logic Underlying Kant’s Deduction of Nature’s Purposiveness and the Deduction of the Highest Good
- Der Platz der ‚Obersten Einteilung des Naturrechts‘ (AA 06: 242.12–19) in Kants Rechtslehre
- Berichte und Diskussionen
- Introduction: Kant and the Berlin Academy
- L’évaluation critique du concept de monade de Béguelin à Kant
- Johann Christoph Schwab et le kantisme
- The Story of a Phantom Conflict: The Dispute over Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Second Round of the Kant-Eberhard Controversy
- Saving Metaphysics: Kant and the Berlin Academy’s Reception of Critical Philosophy
- Mitteilungen zur Logiknachschrift Volckmanns
- Bibliographie
- Kant-Bibliographie 2023
- Buchbesprechungen
- Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: L’Avènement de la métaphysique kantienne. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023, 351 pages. ISBN: 978-2406148173.
- Kants Schriften in Übersetzungen. Hrsg. von Gisela Schlüter. Hamburg: Meiner, 2020, 872 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-7873-3858-0. [Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Sonderheft 15.]
- Mitteilungen
- Gutachter-Dank
- Jahresinhalt Kant-Studien Jg. 116, 2025
