Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

by Immanuel Kant

Publisher:

Open Court

, 1912

Overview

Published after Critique of Pure Reason, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics restates and summarizes many of the main arguments. Kant also applies what he calls an “analytic” method, with a view to making his ideas clearer. The book also argues for the importance of Critique of Pure Reason and rebuts a negative review.

Key Features

• Summarizes the main points of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
• Features an essay on Kant by the translator, Paul Carus
• Includes articles studying Kant’s life and philosophy

Contents

• Kant’s Prolegomena
• Essay on Kant’s Philosophy by Dr. Paul Carus
• Supplementary Materials for the Study of Kant’s Life and Philosophy
  • Kant’s Life and Writings
  • The Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment
  • Kant’s Views on Religion
  • Kant and Materialism
  • Kant and Deism
  • The Kantian Philosophy
  • Hostile Estimate of Kant by a Swedenborgian
  • Facsimile and Translation of a Letter of Kant to His Brother
  • Chronology of Kant’s Life and Publications

Top Highlights

“concerning the origin, not concerning the indispensable need of the concept” (Page 5)

“All metaphysicians are therefore solemnly and legally suspended from their occupations till they shall have answered in a satisfactory manner the question, ‘How are synthetic cognitions a priori possible?’ For the answer contains the only credentials which they must show when they have anything to offer in the name of pure reason. But if they do not possess these credentials, they can expect nothing else of reasonable people, who have been deceived so often, than to be dismissed without further ado.” (Page 29)

“Since the Essays of Locke and Leibnitz, or rather since the origin of metaphysics so far as we know its history, nothing has ever happened which was more decisive to its fate than the attack made upon it by David Hume.” (Page 3)

“ cause and effect was by no means the only idea by which the understanding thinks the connexion of things a priori” (Page 7)

“but whether that concept could be thought by reason a priori” (Page 5)

Product Details

• Title: Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
• Author: Immanuel Kant
• Edition: Third Edition
• Publisher: Open Court
• Print Publication Date: 1912
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 301
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Metaphysics; Knowledge, Theory of
• Resource ID: LLS:PRLGMNFTRMTPHYSKANT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:39:47Z

About Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg, researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology during and at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment. At the time, there were major successes and advances in physical science using reason and logic. But this stood in sharp contrast to the scepticism and lack of agreement or progress in empiricist philosophy.