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Imagination as the productive faculty for "creating another nature…"

Milton C. Nahm

pp. 442-450

In the section (§ 49) of the Critique of Judgment which he entitles The faculties of the mind which constitute genius", Kant writes that "The Imagination (as a productive faculty) is very powerful in creating another nature, as it were, out of the material that actual nature gives it." What the Productive Imagination creates, he adds, 'surpasses nature."

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-3099-1_43

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Nahm, M. C. (1972)., Imagination as the productive faculty for "creating another nature…", in L. White Beck (ed.), Proceedings of the Third international Kant congress, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 442-450.

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