 Kant’s views on aesthetics and teleology are most fully presented in his Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, now often translated Critique of the Power of Judgment), published in  1790.[1]  This work is in two parts, preceded by a long introduction in which Kant explains and defends the work’s importance to his critical system overall. In the first part, the “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment”, Kant discusses aesthetic experience and judgment, in particular of the beautiful and the sublime, and also artistic creation; in the second part, the “Critique of Teleological Judgment”, he discusses the role of teleology (that is, appeal to ends, purposes or goals) in natural science and in our understanding of nature more generally. The Critique of Judgment was the third and last of Kant’s three Critiques, the other two being the Critique of Pure Reason (1781, with a second edition in 1787), which deals with metaphysics and epistemology, and the Critique of Practical Reason of 1788, which, alongside his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals of 1785, deals with ethics.