Critique of Judgement (Bernard Translation)

what is contained in the Critique of Pure Reason”; and this advice has not become any less beneficial with the passing of years. The fact, however, remains that many people do not have enough familiarity with German to allow them to study German philosophy in the original language with ease; this makes translations an educational necessity. This translation of Kant’s Critique of the Faculty of Judgement has been undertaken in the hope that it may encourage a more general study of that masterpiece. If any reader wishes to follow Schopenhauer’s advice, they have only to skip the entirety of this introductory material and proceed immediately to the author’s demanding original: "laborious" Introduction.

It is somewhat surprising that the Critique of Judgement has never before been made fully accessible to the English-speaking reader. Dr. Watson John Watson (1847–1939), a Scottish-Canadian philosopher known for his works on Kant. has indeed translated a few selected passages, as has Dr. Caird Edward Caird (1835–1908), a prominent British Idealist who wrote extensively on the Kantian system. in his valuable account of Kantian philosophy, and I have found their translations to be of significant use. However, the space devoted by both writers to the Critique of Judgement is very small compared to what they gave to the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason.

Yet, the work is not unimportant. Kant himself viewed it as the capstone original: "coping-stone"—the final stone placed on top of a structure to complete it. of his critical system; it even served as the starting point for his successors—Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel German Idealists who expanded upon Kant's work to create their own expansive philosophical systems.—in the construction of their own philosophical systems. Perhaps the reason it has been relatively neglected lies in its unappealing original: "repulsive" style. Kant was never one to worry about his writing style, and in his later years, he became