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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“An organised product of nature is one in which every part is reciprocally purpose, [end] and means”
The Critique of Judgement, Part II, § 66, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
The principle for judging organisms as natural purposes; Kant adds that in such a being nothing is vain or to be ascribed to blind mechanism. The bracketed word is the translator's.
Citation: "An organised product of nature is one in which every part is reciprocally purpose, [end] and means" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part II, § 66, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q12)
