In the Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, Kant answers the question what human beings are in a descriptive and empirical way, characterizing the phenomenon "human being" as a member of the human community under social and cultural conditions. In the second part of the Critique of Judgment, however, Kant tries to explain the noumenal dimension of the human being, based on the "conclusion" from moral teleology to a final purpose (see AA 05: 455). This argument has already been present in the human faculty of reason from its earlierst germination, and it develops more and more during the progressive cultivation of this faculty (see AA 05: 458). To point out the relationship between the "Methodology of the teleological power of judgment" and the didactic function of the Anthropology can help to understand the idea of man as a final purpose and as an aim requiring nothing else as condition of its possibility, thereby expressing the unconditional within the limits of sensual nature.
Final purpose; the unconditional; human condition; culture; humanity (mankind/humaneness)