Between the organism and the artifact. Regarding conformity to the narrative end

Abstract

The principle of conformity to an end provided Kant with the means to justify the contingent suitability of the mechanical laws of nature to the limitations of human understanding. Considering that literary narration pursues the recreation of the world through the unity of experience, this article holds that it is in the idea of conformity to a formal end that Kant finds the concept of end that corresponds to this. The Criticism of Judgment, particularly the First Introduction, makes it possible to realize the multiple implications i