Ascending and Descending Causality: Kant and the Peculiar Unity of the Natural Ends
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In the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Kant calls attention to some natural products –the organized beings- which present a kind of causality that is completely unknown to us. Organisms are the causes and effects of themselves. They are not only organized beings, but also self-organizing beings. These peculiarities cannot be explained by mechanical causality. Whereas efficient causes have the temporal form of a descending series, the causal nexus in organisms have the temporal form of a series that is descending as well as ascending.
In this paper, I intend to elucidate to what extent the consideration of organisms as natural ends allows to translate the temporal form of their causal nexus to a temporal form consistent with the principle of the second analogy of experience.
- Causality
- Mechanism
- Teleology
- Natural Ends
- Temporality
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