The possibility of a transition (ubergang) between freedom and nature in the third critique of Kant

Abstract

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant seeks to establish the grounds and limits of our reason in the process of knowledge of nature through of clarification of how our faculty of understanding works. However, your system fails to meet the demands of reason in its pure practicality. Thus, Kant seeks through the second Critique - Critique of Practical Reason - develop the use of the faculty of reason in its practical sense and seeks to demonstrate how, through freedom, we can create moral laws that serve as ideal for our sensitive action. Facing this scenario, Kant wrote in 1790 his third Critique - Critique of judgment - in which attempts to describe how works our faculty of judging, which serves as a middle ground between the faculty of understanding and the faculty of reason. This paper will seek to understand and contextualize the need for a transition (Übergang) between these two heterogeneous domains created by the German philosopher in his first two Critiques, namely, between Liberty and Nature, and then to analyze how this transition is possible in the last Kantian Critique, as from the theory of symbolism, the concept of purpose and of the function of judgments of taste in Kant's thought.