Purposeless Purposiveness

Kant construes his Critique of Judgement as his systematization of Theory and Practice. Hence, it attempts to offer a systematization of Efficient Causality and Final Causality. Its central notion is what he calls 'purposeless purposiveness'. A 'purpose' is anything which is the effect of a process initiated by a concept of that purpose. 'Purposiveness' is the relation between an intention, i. e. a purposeful concept, and the process that follows, i. e . it abstracts from the actuality of an effected purpose, an abstraction which further qualifies the relation as 'purposeless'. In other words, purposeless purposiveness combines the two Causal types into a intention-effect relation. But this resolution of Theory and Practice can also be interpreted as his demonstration of the priority of Formal Causality. For, in abstraction from any ulterior purposes, the guidance of an activity by an intention is Formal Causality, and, as the Formaterial analysis of Experience shows, activity can have Form without Purpose, e. g. improvisation, even if it frequently is purposeful. One explicit acknowledgement in the Critique of Judgement of the priority to Kant of Formal Causality is that the ultimate determining factor in judgements of Beauty is the form of an object.