Immanuel Kant’s Metaphysics Essay -- Philosophy Philosophical Papers

Immanuel Kants MetaphysicsTHEMEIn regard to Metaphysics, Kants results were seemingly the opposite to what he strove to achieve, cf. the claim, in his Introduction, that In this head . . . I venture to assert that there is not a wizard metaphysical problem which has not been solved, or for the solution of which the key has not been supplied. In the summing up of his Prolegomena, he records with evident pride in transaction Anyone who has read through and grasped the principles of the CPR . . . will look forward with capture to metaphysics, which is now indeed in his power. Yet the image of an Alleszermalmer persists, who dismantled the foundations of a philosophical edifice which had barely withstood the ravagement of Humes onslaught on its dark fancies These discrepancies should make us wonder how one of the three greatest thinkers of in all time could be so far deluded as to miss the take and import of his efforts I propose to consider this problematic issue from a slightly different than usual perspective. I To put the question of the suitableness of metaphysics as a science is equivalent to asking, what is metaphysical knowledge?, thence can metaphysical conclusions be verified? In the CPR, this issue is encapsulated in the question, How are synthetic a priori judgements possible? But before I address it, let me offer something as a curtain cultivator The metaphysical possibility as well as the epistemology of newtonian unquestioning space remained a mystery until Kant solved it . . . Guyer 10. My intention here is to make into focus the possibility of metaphysics having stood still in the interim that no alternate (as Kant indubitably expected) has taken up the cudgels and ... ...g, but in my view a horizon beckoning for metaphysics by which to orient itself. Bibliography Kant, Immanuel Kritik der reinen Vernunft & Prolegomena. Cited according to standard method. Secondary texts Adorno, Theodor W. Kant and the reexamination of Pure Reason. P olity Press, Oxford 2001.Ameriks, Karl Kant and the Fate of Autonomy. Cambridge UP 2000.Dryer, P. D. Kants Solution for chip in Metaphysics. Allen & Unwin, London 1966.Gardner, Sebastian Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. Routledge, London 1999.Guyer, Paul (ed.) The Cambridge blighter to Kant. Cambridge UP 1992.Heidegger, Martin Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt 1973.Janaway, Christopher Self and World in Schopenhauers Philosophy. Clarendon, Oxford 1989.Pinkard, Terry German Philosophy 1760-1860. Cambridge UP 2002.