Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure ReasonIn the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant famously criticizes traditional metaphysics and its proofs of immortality, free will and God's existence. What is often overlooked is that Kant also explains why rational beings must ask metaphysical questions about 'unconditioned' objects such as souls, uncaused causes or God, and why answers to these questions will appear rationally compelling to them. In this book, Marcus Willaschek reconstructs and defends Kant's account of the rational sources of metaphysics. After carefully explaining Kant's conceptions of reason and metaphysics, he offers detailed interpretations of the relevant passages from the Critique of Pure Reason (in particular, the 'Transcendental Dialectic') in which Kant explains why reason seeks 'the unconditioned'. Willaschek offers a novel interpretation of the Transcendental Dialectic, pointing up its 'positive' side, while at the same time it uncovers a highly original account of metaphysical thinking that will be relevant to contemporary philosophical debates. |
Contents
On a Discovery On a Discovery Whereby Any New Critique | 2 |
Introduction to Part I | 18 |
The Logical Use of Reason and the Logical Maxim | 46 |
The Supreme Principle of Pure Reason | 71 |
Understanding the Transition Passage A3078B364 | 103 |
The Transition from the Logical Maxim to the Supreme | 127 |
De Mundi On the Form and Principles of the Sensible | 143 |
Only Possible Argument Only Possible Argument in Support of | 148 |
Reason and Metaphysics in the Transcendental Ideal | 218 |
Transcendental Realism and Kants Critique of Speculative | 243 |
Prolegomena Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That | 253 |
Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic | 264 |
Kants Practical Metaphysics | 270 |
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