The Critique of Judgment also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment and more
commonly referred to as the third Critique is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant. Critique
of Judgment completes the Critical project begun in the Critique of Pure Reason and the
Critique of Practical Reason (the first and second Critiques respectively). The book is
divided into two main sections: the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of
Teleological Judgment and also includes a large overview of the entirety of Kant's Critical
system arranged in its final form. The end result of Kant's Critical Project is that there are
certain fundamental antinomies in human Reason most particularly that there is a complete
inability to favor on the one hand the argument that all behavior and thought is determined by
external causes and on the other that there is an actual spontaneous causal principle at work
in human behavior. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher who according to the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the central figure of modern philosophy. Kant argued
that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience that reason is the
source of morality that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment that space
and time are forms of our understanding and that the world as it is in-itself is unknowable.
Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy akin to Copernicus'
reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.
