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- Title
Die neue Auffassung der Metaphysik als reine Philosophie in der Inaugural-dissertation und ihre propädeutische Bedeutung im Rahmen der Entwicklungsgeschichte der Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
- Authors
Moledo, Fernando
- Abstract
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant criticizes Baumgarten's definition of metaphysics as the science of the first principles of human knowledge (Meta-physica §1). He maintains that this definition doesn't consider the distinction between sensible and pure knowledge. Instead of this definition, Kant provides a new one in the first Critique: metaphysics is the system of pure reason (KrV, A 841/B 869). This definition is first anticipated eleven years before in the Inaugural Dissertation, where metaphysics is defined as pure philosophy (MSI, AA 02: 411). Kant presents the Dissertation as a proof of the propaedeutic that must precede metaphysics, and so anticipates the idea that will be fully developed in the Critique of Pure Reason. In this paper, I will argue that the new definition of metaphysics in the Inaugural Dissertation must be seen as the text's very important result, establishing the Dissertation's status as a propaedeutic to metaphysics and as a specific step in the development of the Critique of Pure Reason.
- Subjects
KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; METAPHYSICS; PHILOSOPHY; REASON; INTELLECT
- Publication
Kant-Studien, 2016, Vol 107, Issue 3, p485
- ISSN
0022-8877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kant-2016-0035