Order and life in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic

My aim now is to show how the problem of contingent/necessary order, constituting the framework in which the knowledge of life is envisaged, as addressed in 1763, is transformed in the Critique of Pure Reason, and to wonder whether this work explicates the ontological status of the living. Then, I will clarify the meaning of the life sciences for science as understood in the Critique of Pure Reason, and the type of life science precisely evoked by the Appendix to the “Transcendental dialectic.”