The knowledge of the nature in Kant’s third critique

Abstract

I analyze the importance that acquires Kant’s third Critique in the level of empirical knowledge of nature. It is true that the aesthetic and teleological judgments of the Critique of Judgment do not provide knowledge of the nature. Nevertheless, the principle of purposiveness situated in the base of the above mentioned judgments has important implications for empirical knowledge. With this I try to suggest that the cognitive theory raised in the Critique of the Pure Reason was enriched by the own contributions of the Critique of Judgment, in the measure in which the latter work shows dimensions of the human knowledge that were not contemplated in the first Critique.