Immanuel Kant’s Metaphysics Essay -- Philosophy Philosophical Papers

Immanuel Kants MetaphysicsTHEMEIn debate to Metaphysics, Kants results were seemingly the opposite to what he strove to achieve, cf. the claim, in his Introduction, that In this enquiry . . . I venture to assert that t here is not a single metaphysical problem which has not been solved, or for the solution of which the paint has not been supplied. In the summing up of his Prolegomena, he records with evident pride in achievement Anyone who has read through and grasped the principles of the CPR . . . will look antecedent with delight to metaphysics, which is now indeed in his power. Yet the image of an Alleszermalmer persists, who destruct the foundations of a philosophical edifice which had barely withstood the ravagement of Humes onslaught on its occult fancies These discrepancies should make us wonder how one of the three superlative thinkers of all time could be so far deluded as to get by the outcome and import of his efforts I propose to consider this problematic consequen ce from a slightly different than usual perspective. I To put the heading of the suitability of metaphysics as a science is equivalent to asking, what is metaphysical intimacy?, hence can metaphysical conclusions be verified? In the CPR, this solution is encapsulated in the question, How are synthetic a priori judgements possible? But onwards I address it, let me offer something as a shroud raiser The metaphysical possibility as well as the epistemology of Newtonian absolute space remained a mystery until Kant solved it . . . Guyer 10. My intention here is to throw into focus the possibility of metaphysics having stood still in the interim that no successor (as Kant indubitably expected) has taken up the cudgels and ... ...g, but in my status a horizon beckoning for metaphysics by which to orient itself. Bibliography Kant, Immanuel Kritik der reinen Vernunft & Prolegomena. Cited according to standard method. unessential texts Adorno, Theodor W. Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. Polity Press, Oxford 2001.Ameriks, Karl Kant and the Fate of Autonomy. Cambridge UP 2000.Dryer, P. D. Kants dissolver for Verification in Metaphysics. Allen & Unwin, London 1966.Gardner, Sebastian Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. Routledge, London 1999.Guyer, capital of Minnesota (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Kant. Cambridge UP 1992.Heidegger, Martin Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt 1973.Janaway, Christopher Self and worldly concern in Schopenhauers Philosophy. Clarendon, Oxford 1989.Pinkard, Terry German Philosophy 1760-1860. Cambridge UP 2002.