Commentary on Ostaric’s Critique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant’s System

In my commentary, I focus on Ostaric’s account of the relation between the faculty of reflective judgment and empirical reality. She emphasizes, correctly, that the purposiveness at issue in the third Critique is a purposiveness of nature. I consider whether Ostaric’s “moral image realism” can connect reflective judgment to nature in a truly realist fashion, and argue that it cannot.

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Croatian Journal of Philosophy
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2025-12-01
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https://doi.org/10.52685/cjp.25.74.4
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Philosophical Ethics and Theory
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Commentary on Ostaric’s Critique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant’s System

Ted Kinnamann
Croatian Journal of Philosophy
Philosophical Ethics and Theory
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Commentary on Ostaric’s Critique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant’s System

Ted Kinnamann
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Abstract

In my commentary, I focus on Ostaric’s account of the relation between the faculty of reflective judgment and empirical reality. She emphasizes, correctly, that the purposiveness at issue in the third Critique is a purposiveness of nature. I consider whether Ostaric’s “moral image realism” can connect reflective judgment to nature in a truly realist fashion, and argue that it cannot.

Croatian Journal of PhilosophyVol. 25(74)
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