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Berlin u. Libau: Lagarde und Friederich, 1790. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Kant’s Third and Final Critique: Judgment KANT, Immanuel, Critik der Urtheilskraft (Critique of Judgment), Lagarde und Friederich, Berlin u. Libau, 1790. 1 blank leaf + TP + [iii] – x = Vorrede + [xi] – lvi = Einleitung (introduction) + [lvii] – lviii = Eintheilung (divisions/contents) + half-title + [1] – 476 + 1 leaf = Druckfehler; (errata), Octavo. First Edition [Warda 125]. Kant’s third and final critique explores the notion of beauty. For Kant, the beautiful rests between the good and the pleasant. Where the good is that which is esteemed by all and the pleasant is that which gratifies the one, the beautiful pleases the one as it does others. Beauty in art is bound up with such subjective universality—it speaks to the hearts of all men. Judgment of the beautiful is true because pleases me in a way that it also universally pleases those with taste. The experience of the beautiful is…

Critik der Urtheilskraft, or Critique of Judgement, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant, published in 1790. It is the third of his critiques, following the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the Critique of Practical Reason (1788). The work addresses aesthetics and the philosophy of science, exploring the faculty of judgement.

First editions of Critik der Urtheilskraft have a title page vignette and the original publisher Hartmann Schedel stamp.