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Here I reconstruct the book with a particular focus on the cognition of organisms and read it in systematic relation to Kant, whose analysis of teleological judgment provides the clearest foil for Steiner\u2019s project. The guiding question is under what epistemic conditions living beings can become objects of genuine knowledge rather than merely regulative judgment. I reconstruct the argument in five steps: (1) pure experience as a structureless manifold; (2) thinking as a self-transparent and law-governed activity within experience; (3) cognition as the reunification of perception and concept under empirical constraint; (4) the contrast between inorganic and organic cognition; and (5) the claim that organisms can be understood through Goethe\u2019s concept of\n                    <jats:italic>Typus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , a developing method, and an intuitive power of judgment (\n                    <jats:italic>anschauende Urteilskraft<\/jats:italic>\n                    ). Steiner\u2019s reconstruction of Goethe thus yields a position that transforms Kant\u2019s view of teleological judgment as merely regulative. A concluding section considers the relevance of this argument for current debates on organism-centred theoretical biology and the relation between subject and object in biological cognition. 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