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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
Author
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Original title
Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können
Language
German
Subject
Metaphysics
Published
1783
Media type
Print
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Immanuel Kant
Major works
Critique of Pure Reason
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
"Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?"
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Critique of Practical Reason
Critique of Judgment
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason
Perpetual Peace
The Metaphysics of Morals
"On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives"
Opus Postumum
Kantianism • Kantian ethics
Transcendental idealism
Critical philosophy
Sapere aude
Thing-in-itself
Schema
A priori and a posteriori
Analytic–synthetic distinction
Noumenon
Category
Categorical imperative
Hypothetical imperative
"Kingdom of Ends"
Political philosophy
People
J. G. Fichte
G. W. F. Hegel
David Hume
F. H. Jacobi
Arthur Schopenhauer
Baruch Spinoza
Related topics
German idealism
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science (German: Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können) is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, published in 1783, two years after the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason. One of Kant's shorter works, it contains a summary of the Critique‘s main conclusions, sometimes by arguments Kant had not used in the Critique. Kant characterizes his more accessible approach here as an "analytic" one, as opposed to the Critique‘s "synthetic" examination of successive faculties of the mind and their principles.[1]
The book is also intended as a polemic. Kant was disappointed by the poor reception of the Critique of Pure Reason, and here he repeatedly emphasizes the importance of its critical project for the very existence of metaphysics as a science. The final appendix contains a response to an unfavorable review of the Critique.
^Analytic and synthetic methods are not the same as analytic and synthetic judgments. The analytic method proceeds from the known to the unknown. The synthetic method proceeds from the unknown to the known. In §§ 4 and 5, Kant asserted that the analytic method assumes that cognitions from pure reason are known to actually exist. We start from this trusted knowledge and proceed to its sources which are unknown. Conversely, the synthetic method starts from the unknown and penetrates by degrees until it reaches a system of knowledge that is based on reason.
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