The Exposition of Pure Judgments of Taste

Abstract

The penultimate chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason is entitled ‘The Architectonic of Pure Reason’. Kant here describes an architectonic as ‘the art of constructing systems’ and as a system is what makes knowledge scientific, an architectonic is ‘the doctrine of the scientific in our knowledge’ (A832/B860). A system is ‘the unity of the manifold modes of knowledge under one idea’ and as an idea is a rational concept of a whole, the notion of system is one with the idea of reason in its most extensive deployment. ‘The scientific concept of reason contains, therefore, the end and the form of that whole which is congruent with this requirement’ (A832/B860). For the idea to be realised it is necessary to resort to a schema devised in accordance with the idea of reason which is identical with philosophy in general. As Kant puts it: … philosophy is the science of the relation of all knowledge to the essential ends of human reason (teleologia rationis humanae) and the philosopher is… himself the lawgiver of human reason. (A839/B867) KeywordsScientific ConceptHuman ReasonRational ConceptPure ReasonManifold ModeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.