A Deeper Understanding of Key Issues in Kant's "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics"

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202412509

Author(s)

Runxiang Gao

Affiliation(s)

School of Marxism, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China

Abstract

The treatise of "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics" has analyzed the probability of Metaphysics’ emerging as a science, which needs to be understood by clarifying crucial concepts such as "synthetic apriori judgments, " time and space, sensibility, understanding, and reason. Additionally, it is essential to understand Kant's layered deductions on the possiblity of mathematical and natural scientific knowledge as well as of metaphysics. This article serves as a preliminary step in studying "Critique of Pure Reason."

Keywords

Understanding; Prolegomena; Grasping; Crucial; Issues

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