Heaven on Earth. On systematicity and aesthetic pleasure
Main Article Content
Abstract
![](https://revistas.unav.edu/social-icons/view.png)
In addition to its intense and innovative cosmological dialogue with predecessors, Kant’s Theory of the Heavens (1755) and its systematising goal tell us something more about the young Kant’s thoughts concerning humanity and the world. We intend 1) to show how Kant’s approach to the question of the order of the universe fi nds a middle path between the extremes of theology and naturalism; b) to show how purposiveness [Zweckmäβigkeit] exemplifies this middle path, and how this progressive resistance is a theoretical device to which Kant would frequently resort; c) to examine the extent to which the discernment of purposiveness and its theoretical order are felt by us as a singular aesthetic pleasure.
Keywords
References
H. BLUMENBERG, Die Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1981).
R. E. BUTTS, Kant’s Philosophy of Physical Science (Springer, New York, 1986).
Ch. HUYGENS, Cosmotheoros (Adrianum Moetjens, Hague, 1698).
I. KANT, Gesammelte Schriften. Hrsg. Von der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Akademie-Ausgabe) (Georg Reimer, Berlin, 1901 ff). (AA).
J. Kepler, Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, 3 Bde. (Johannes Plancus, 1617-1621).
P. KERSZBERG, J. SEIDENGART, A.-M. ROVIELLO (eds.), Histoire générale de la nature et théorie du ciel (Vrin, Paris, 1984).
I. NEWTON, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (Josep hi Streater, Londini, 1687).
M. SCHÖNFELD, The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).
H.-J. WASCHKIES, Physik und Physikotheologie des jungen Kant. Die Vorgeschichte seiner Allgemeinen Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels (Verlag B. R. Grüner, Amsterdam, 1987).
Details
Article Details
RIGHTS TRANSFER
By submitting the article for evaluation and subsequent publication in Anuario Filosófico, the AUTHOR exclusively assigns the rights of public communication, reproduction, distribution and sale for commercial exploitation to the University of Navarra through its Publications Service, for the maximum legal term in force -the entire life of the author and seventy years after his death or declaration of death-, in any country, and in any of the current and future edition modalities, both in print and electronic versions.
In the event that the article is not accepted for publication , this transfer of rights lapses with the communication of the refusal to the AUTHOR.
The AUTHOR affirms that the article is unpublished, that it has not been sent simultaneously to another publication medium and that the rights have not been transferred exclusively previously. He is responsible to the University of Navarra through its Publications Service for the authorship and originality of his work, as well as for all pecuniary charges that may arise for the University of Navarra through its Publications Service, in favor of third parties due to actions, claims or conflicts arising from the breach of obligations by the AUTHOR.