Kant's Critique of Judgment is chiefly a critical investigation into a certain class of judgments identified as "reflective", divided into the aesthetic and the teleological sub-classes and defined in opposition to those termed by Kant "determinant judgments". In this paper I intend to elaborate, in two expositive moments, the hypothesis of a foundational primacy of reflective aesthetic judgment over determinant knowledge. Firstly, I analyse the connection between the main themes - apparently dissociated - of beautiful and faculty of judgment in order to disclose both the ground of Kant's move from a Critique of Taste into a Critique of Judgment and the determining ground of a conceptually indeterminate intersubjectivity considered as the main aim of the work. In the next step I investigate the relationship between reflection and the principle of finality of nature on the basis of third Critique's Introduction in order to verify, through the "practical formula" of the principle of taste, the accuracy of the thesis supporting the primacy of aesthetic reflection over determination.
Reflection; Finality; Judgment of Taste; Faculty of Judgment