Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

Theoretical Philosophy after 1781
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2002-05-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139433091

This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is often recommended to beginning students, but the other texts are also vintage Kant and are important sources for a fully rounded picture of Kant's intellectual development. As with other volumes in the series there are copious linguistic notes and a glossary of key terms. The editorial introductions and explanatory notes shed light on the critical reception accorded Kant by the metaphysicians of his day and on Kant's own efforts to derail his opponents.

Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus

Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus
Author: Beryl Logan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135176523

This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problems raised by Kant. Starting with the Carus translation of Kant's work, the edition offers a substantive new introduction, six papers never before published together and a comprehensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose philosophical investigations, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's 'dogmatic slumber'.

Selections

Selections
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1957
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Second Edition)

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Second Edition)
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872205932

This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.

Kant's Prolegomena

Kant's Prolegomena
Author: Peter Thielke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108752764

The Prolegomena is often dismissed as Kant's failed attempt to popularize his philosophy, but as the essays collected here show, there is much to be gained from a careful study of the work. The essays explore the distinctive features of the Prolegomena, including Kant's discussion of philosophical methodology, his critical idealism, the nature of experience, his engagement with Hume, the nature of the self, the relation between geometry and physics, and what we cognize about God. Newly commissioned for this volume, the essays as a whole offer sophisticated and innovative interpretations of the Prolegomena, and cast Kant's critical philosophy in a new light.

Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics

Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Livraria Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2024-05-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3989883577

A new translation of Immanuel Kant's "Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics" from the original German manuscript first published in 1783. This new edition contains an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Kant's life and works, and a helpful index of Kant's key concepts and intellectual rivals. This translation is designed for readability, rendering Kant's enigmatic German into the simplest equivalent possible, and removing the academic footnotes to make this critically important historical text as accessible as possible to the modern reader. The Prolegomena was published two years after the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason and summarizes the Critique's essential arguments utilizing phraseology and lines of though not present in the first edition. This was intended by Kant as a simplified and clear presentation of the Critique, and he would later work some of these summaries back into later versions of the Critique. It is a hostile polemic against the initial criticisms from specific authors and broadly against the Empiricism of Deterministic Causality and attempts to charta an Ontotheology based on the internal ordering of the mind and soul. Here he returns to the basic ideas of his Metaphysics and lays the foundation for a Metaphysical science that is as respected as mathematics or physics. Just like the Critique, the Prolegomena is Epistemological in nature, focusing on questions on the perception and acquisition of knowledge. Kant muses on a range of Cosmological and Noetic questions, such as how are a priori assumptions possible, or how is knowledge from pure reason possible? How is our numinal consciousness structured, and how does it “know” the world”? What is Space, time, and the cosmos, and how does God interact with or is known by the material world and its inhabitants?