Back Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können German Προλεγόμενα σε κάθε μελλοντική μεταφυσική Greek Prolegómenos a toda metafísica futura que pueda presentarse como ciencia Spanish تمهیداتی برای هر مابعدالطبیعه آینده Persian Prolegomena Finnish Prolégomènes à toute métaphysique future French הקדמות לכל מטפיזיקה בעתיד HE Պրոլեգոմեններ ապագա ամեն մետաֆիզիկայի Armenian Forspjall að sérhverri vísindalegri frumspeki framtíðar Icelandic Prolegomeni ad ogni metafisica futura che vorrà presentarsi come scienza Italian
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| Author | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
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| Original title | Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Metaphysics |
| Published | 1783 |
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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.