The Cipher of Nature in Kant’s Third Critique: How to Represent Natural Beauty as Meaningful?

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Con-textos Kantianos-International Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.4304101

Moran Godess-Riccitelli

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Abstract

What is it that we encountered with in our aesthetic experience of natural beauty? Does nature “figuratively speaks to us in its beautiful forms”, 2 to use Kant’s phrasing in the third Critique , or is it merely our way of interpreting nature whether this be its purpose or not? Kant does not answer these questions directly. Rather, he leaves the ambiguity around them by his repeated use of terminology of ciphers when it comes to our aesthetic experience in nature. This paper examines Kant’s terminology of ciphers in the Critique of Judgment and demonstrate through it the intimate link aesthetic experience in natural beauty has with human morality. A link whose culmination point is embodied in the representation of beauty as a symbol of morality.

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康德第三批判中的自然密码:自然美如何表现为有意义的?

我们在自然美的审美体验中遇到了什么？用康德在第三次批判中的话来说，自然是“以其美丽的形式形象地向我们说话”，还是仅仅是我们解释自然的方式，无论这是否是它的目的？康德并没有直接回答这些问题。相反，当涉及到我们在自然界中的审美体验时，他反复使用密码术语，从而留下了它们周围的歧义。本文考察了康德在《判断力批判》中的密码术语，并通过它论证了自然美的审美体验与人类道德的密切联系。一个环节，其顶点体现在作为道德象征的美的表现上。

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期刊介绍： Con-Textos Kantianos aims at boosting the philological and critical research on Kant studies, considering also actual discussions on Kant''s thought. That is the reason why its heading hints to contexts with texts. Kant shall be the main focus of the journal, which will tackle subjects such as Moral and Political Philosophy, History of Ideas, Philosophy of Right, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Education, Aesthetics, Anthropology, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Human Rights, Social Policy, Theories of Justice and Cosmopolitanism. CTK aims at being an international and cosmopolitan inspired e-journal, where the Spanish language receives equal acknowledgement as English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese do. The main purposes of the journal are to enhance the development of a Kant scholarship network at the Latin American scale and to tighten the links between research groups already consolidated in different countries and languages. The editorial team, which gathers Kant scholars from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Spain, will certainly ease the fulfillment of both purposes.