Organisms and Teleology in the Critique of the Judgment of I. kant

Abstract

The author retakes the problem of the organisms, understood as material entities that extend in space and time under laws of attraction, repulsion and movement mechanics. Their mere existence may seem to reqμire an explanation ruled by teleological principies, according to a classical model of explanation. Kant's view wíll reject any explanation requiring ant kind of internal ends, external ends or divine ends. The author shows the Kantian arguments to refute this classical view.