About this title: 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.
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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
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Edition: 2 REV ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HACKETT PUBLISHING CO, INC Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2002
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
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Binding: Softcover
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"Kant is difficult. While the goal of Kant's philosophizing, to establish the requirements of scientific metaphysics, may or may not appeal to you, the way that he constructs the argument and his suppositions about subjects, objects, nature, and how we come to knowledge are central to a huge amount of modern thought. As painful as it was, I'm glad someone made me read this book.
Dismayed that no one was reading his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant wrote the Prolegomena as a concise version of the same argument for us neophytes. Rather than propose a metaphysical system, Kant asks whether metaphysics, inquiry into topics like the soul, God, and the world, is even possible. In order for metaphysics to be actual, there must be synthetic cognition a priori, that is cognition that adds new material rather than analyze that which already exists, and that does so "before the fact" or without the need of experience.
Kant finds that this must be possible, because this type of cognition exists in mathematics and natural philosophy. These disciplines add new knowledge but do so without relying on experience. Rather, Kant believes that they explore the very possibility of experience, which he calls the "forms" or "categories" of sensibility and understanding. These forms, which include space, time, and causality, all belong to the subject, not the object of experience. Therefore, the world that we know is the word of appearances, which are intuitions of objects "out there," experienced by us as existing in time and space in causal relationships. I'm pretty sure I had the exact same thought once when I was really high.
Kant's prognosis for the future of metaphysics is pretty grim, though, as unlike mathematics or natural philosophy, metaphysics doesn't even have a possible object of experience. The only possibility he can think of is reasoning by analogy, so that we can think "at the boundary" between the field of experience and that which lies beyond it. Heavy stuff."
"This text is essentially a concise summary of the work accomplished by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, in which the great thinker answers the following: 1)How is pure mathematics possible? 2) How is pure natural science possible? 3)How is metaphysics in general possible? 4) How is metaphysics as a science possible? These are of course the most crucial topics in all transcendental thought, and this volume is possibly the most successful microcosm of Kant's thought. However, for all real students of Kant, the Critique must be read in its entirety."
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