康德对于亚里士多德形式因的重新发现

Kant's Rediscovery of Aristotelian Formal Cause

亚里士多德形式因是康德先验形式概念的重要思想来源,是康德把目的论与美学结合起来的理论契机。康德创造性地把亚里士多德实体理论中的形式因发展为先验形式概念,把形式因中的目的因发展为主观合目的性,从而为人类在审美领域找到审美判断的先验原则提供了可能,而这种表现为自然形式合目的性的先验原则正是康德对于亚里士多德形式因重新发现和改造的结果。

Aristotelian formal cause,an important ideological source of Kant's concept of a priori knowledge,is a theoretical opportunity for Kant to combine teleology with aesthetics.Kant creatively develops the formal cause in Aristotelian entity theory into the formal concept of a priori knowledge,and the final cause in formal cause into the subjective-teleology,which grants the possibility for human beings to find a priori justification for the aesthetic judgment in the domain of aesthetics.This type of knowledge expressed as subjective teleology in natural form turns out to be the consequence of Kant's rediscovery and development of Aristotelian formal cause.