Kant's Metaphysical foundations of natural science : a critical guide / edited by Michael Bennett McNulty, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
"Immanuel Kant long sought to write a metaphysics of nature. In a 1765 letter to Johann Heinrich Lambert, Kant reported that he was postponing the general project he had been working on, the "Proper Method of Metaphysics." He would instead produce the paired "Metaphysical Foundat...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2022.
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| Series: | Cambridge critical guides.
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| Summary: | "Immanuel Kant long sought to write a metaphysics of nature. In a 1765 letter to Johann Heinrich Lambert, Kant reported that he was postponing the general project he had been working on, the "Proper Method of Metaphysics." He would instead produce the paired "Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Philosophy" [metaphysische Anfangsgründe der natürlichen Weltweisheit] and "Metaphysical Foundations of Practical Philosophy" [der praktischen Weltweisheit] (Br, 10:56; see Förster 1989, 289-90) as particular examples in concreto of the proper philosophical methodology. Despite Kant's claim that the "content" of these projects was "already worked out," they were, in turn, deferred and subsequently shelved during his writing of the Inaugural Dissertation (MSI) and the subsequent tumult to his metaphysical outlook left in its wake. Nonetheless, Kant still harbored ambition to write a metaphysics of nature, expressing his hope to return to this project in the preface of the 1781 first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason while acknowledging that a critique of reason must antecede his metaphysical ambitions: "[The] Metaphysics of Nature...will be not half so extensive but will be incomparably richer in content than this critique, which had first to display the sources and conditions of its possibility, and needed to clear and level a ground that was completely overgrown" (KrV, Axxi)"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1108750516 9781108750516 |