Kant and natural purposes?!

Question: Kant and natural purposes?

Kant says, "For even before we inquire into the cause of nature itself, we find that nature contains such products and engages in their production. They are produced there in accord with known empirical laws; it is in terms of these laws that natural science must judge objects. What are these empirical laws? And how does natural science sought out the rule of purposes. And is the purposiveness of organisms a natural phenomenon?

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Kant uses the term natural purpose to refer anything that could be construed to be both cause and effect of itself. He notes: “In such a product of nature every part not only exists by means of the other parts, but is thought as existing for the sake of the others and the whole, that is as an (organic) instrument.” He further states: “Only a product of such a kind can be called a natural purpose, and this because it is an organised and self-organising being.” Check here for more information.

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