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  • Chapter 3 - Reflective Judgment and the Realism of the “Moral Image”

  • from Part I - The Highest Good and the Postulates
  • Lara Ostaric, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The <i>Critique of Judgment</i> and the Unity of Kant's Critical System
    Published online:
    15 August 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 72-98

  • Summary

    The novelty in Kant’s conception of the highest good in the third Critique is not limited to its form, namely, that of an ethical community. Kant refers to his earlier conception of the highest good as having a reality only insofar as it is a necessary object for us. However, in the third Critique, the highest good must be also the end of nature. I argue in this chapter that it is the role of reflective judgment to represent nature as aiming toward the realization of the highest good in the world, so that it is no longer sufficient that we intellectually “conceive” its possibility but that we can also perceive it as furthered by nature. In this way, the highest good and the Idea of God as the object of moral Glaube receive a special kind of realism, which I will refer to as “moral image realism” (MIR).