Transcendental Dialectic

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Transcendental Dialectic is the section of Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy that analyzes how pure reason generates metaphysical illusions and critiques traditional rationalist metaphysics.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf concept in epistemology
concept in metaphysics
part of a philosophical book
philosophical work section
addresses possibility of metaphysics as a science
aimsAt critique of metaphysics
limitation of the claims of pure reason
showing the boundaries of possible experience
analyzes dialectical inferences of reason
pure reason
author Immanuel Kant
belongsToPhilosophicalTradition Enlightenment philosophy
German idealism
centralConceptIn Kantian epistemology
Kantian metaphysics
contrastsWith Transcendental Analytic
critiques antinomies of pure reason
dogmatic metaphysics
ideal of pure reason
paralogisms of pure reason
traditional rationalist metaphysics
distinguishes logical illusion and transcendental illusion
examines God as the highest being
ideas of reason
soul as a thinking substance
world as a totality of conditions
focusesOn reason rather than understanding
follows Transcendental Analytic
historicalContext late 18th century European philosophy
influenced analytic philosophy of metaphysics
phenomenology
post-Kantian idealism
keyTerm antinomy
ideal of pure reason
ideas of reason
paralogism
transcendental illusion
locatedIn Transcendental Logic
mainWorkLanguage German
method transcendental critique
partOf Critique of Pure Reason
precedes Doctrine of Method
publicationYear 1781
revisedEditionYear 1787
studies metaphysical illusion
transcendental illusion

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Critique of Pure Reason
containsPart
Transcendental Analytic ("Transcendental Doctrine of Elements")
locatedInWork
Transcendental Analytic
precedesSection

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