Kants Dritte Kritik und die Genese des Badischen Neukantianismus
I argue here that the relationship of the neo-Kantian School of Baden to Kant’s philosophy passes through the mediation of Hermann Lotze. If, for instance, the neo-Kantian theory of values sees in “feeling” the criterion of the recognition of values, and if this recognition, of beauty in the first place, imposes itself upon the individual subject as some sort of “ought” (Sollen), these two elements, typical of Kant’s aesthetic judgment, have been taken over and to a large extent transformed in the writings of Lotze, who was, as wee might recall, the teacher of Windelband. And besides, the dogmatic approach to teleology that we find in Lotze was to have far-reaching consequences for the Baden School, namely with regard to its interest for history as the ideal ground for the progressive realization of values.
Rickert Windelband Lotze History Value Beauty Feeling