Ep. 393: Kant vs. Hegel (Part One) (opens in new tab)

Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. Continuing on Ch. 2 of Hegel's Faith and Knowledge (1802) , plus some of the material being critiqued from Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790), chiefly sec. 76 and 77. Kant's third critique is not just about beauty but about apprehending nature, and he claims that as humans, we can only understand natural objects by seeing them as purposive (i.e. teleologically): An organism has a healthy state that it is designed...