Spirit, Art, Morality, God

Appearing in #59 of the Critique of Judgment, Kant's cryptic reference to "something that is neither nature nor freedom . . . in which the theoretical and the practical powers are in an unknown manner combined", seems a surprising development in a system that is generally presented as dualistic.  However, the referent of the passage is likely the 'God' of the 2nd Critique, the existence of which is posited in order to account for the possibility of Freedom having causal efficacy in Nature.  Furthermore, a similarly cryptic allusion to a "supreme understanding", in #78 of the 3rd Critique, tends to support that hypothesis.  Thus, in the context of an explanation that Art is conditioned by Morality, the passage can be interpreted as containing a veiled subordination of creative Spirit to theological premises, Kant's derivation of which from Reason is, as has been previously argued here, questionable.