Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason

ISBN-13: 9781108460064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 310 str.

Marcus Willaschek

Opis

In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant criticizes traditional metaphysics and its proofs of immortality, free will and God's existence. By contrast, this book explains Kant's less famous but nonetheless plausible account of why rational beings ask metaphysical questions and why answers to these questions appear rationally compelling to them.

Recenzje

'Marcus Willaschek's new book is a penetrating analysis of the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason that should set the standard for further work on the subject for years to come.' Paul Guyer, Kantian Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. From Reason to Metaphysics: 1. Kant's conceptions of reason and metaphysics; 2. The logical use of reason and the logical maxim; 3. The supreme principle of pure reason; 4. Understanding the transition passage (A307–8/B364); 5. The transition from the logical maxim to the supreme principle of pure reason; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. The Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic: 6. The system of transcendental ideas; 7. The paralogisms and antinomy arguments as 'necessary inferences of reason'; 8. Reason and metaphysics in the transcendental ideal and the appendix; 9. Transcendental realism and Kant's critique of speculative metaphysics; Conclusion to Part II.