This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant's critical philosophy and
that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of
its fundamental arguments and provide a key to understanding its unity. It thus aims through
an examination of each of Kant's major writings to provide a detailed interpretation of his
claim that philosophy in the true sense must consist of a teleologia rationis humanae.The
author argues that Kant's critical philosophy forged a new link between traditional
teleological concepts and the basic structure of rationality one that would later inform the
dynamic conception of reason at the heart of German Idealism. The process by which this was
accomplished began with Kant's development of a uniquely teleological conception of systematic
unity already in the precritical period. The individual chapters of this work attempt to show
how Kant adapted and refined this conception of systematic unity so that it came to form the
structural basis for the critical philosophy.
