Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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book
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philosophical work → work of epistemology → work of metaphysics → |
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to clarify and defend the arguments of the Critique of Pure Reason
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to provide a concise introduction to Kant’s critical philosophy → |
| author |
Immanuel Kant
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| basedOn |
Critique of Pure Reason
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Prussia
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Critique of Pure Reason
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epistemology
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metaphysics → philosophy → |
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treatise
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20th-century analytic philosophy
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German Idealism → Neo-Kantianism → |
| intendedAudience |
readers unfamiliar with the Critique of Pure Reason
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| keyConcept |
a priori forms of sensibility (space and time)
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categories of the understanding → distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments → synthetic a priori knowledge → thing in itself → transcendental idealism → |
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German
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conditions of the possibility of experience
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critique of traditional metaphysics → distinction between phenomena and noumena → limits of human cognition → possibility of metaphysics as a science → synthetic a priori judgments → |
| method |
transcendental critique
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clarification of arguments from the Critique of Pure Reason
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concise presentation of Kant’s critical philosophy → systematic defense of the possibility of metaphysics as a science → |
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Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können
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| philosophicalPeriod |
Enlightenment
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| philosophicalSchool |
Kantianism
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| philosophicalTradition |
transcendental idealism
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| publicationYear |
1783
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| questionAddressed |
Can metaphysics be established as a rigorous science?
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How are synthetic a priori judgments possible? → |
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How is metaphysics in general possible?
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How is pure mathematics possible? → How is pure natural science possible? → |
| structure |
divided into a preface and three main sections
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| title |
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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Referenced by (12)
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Critique of Pure Reason
("Transcendental Doctrine of Elements")
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Critique of Pure Reason ("Transcendental Doctrine of Method") → |
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How is pure mathematics possible?
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How is pure natural science possible? → |
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Immanuel Kant
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("Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können")
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How is pure mathematics possible?
("Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können")
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How is pure natural science possible?
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