About this title: This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
Description: Fine New in Fine jacket. SOFT COVER, Fine/Fine, Hackett Publishing Company, 1977, 0.6 in. H x 8.8 in. L x 5.9 in. W, 8.4 oz. This copy has no signs of use, is in Excellent Condition Overall. Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Edition: New Ed
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Date Published: 03/01/1977
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
Description: Good. 0915144255 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science (Hpc Classics Series)-Used book in Good Condition. Binding Good. Shows wear from use. Text is 99% clean. Ownerís Name. Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 9780915144259 Size: 5.5 x 8.5 x.5 in. We are professional and prompt. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Paperback Edition-Average Wear-Lots of Underlining & Margin Notes. Text in English, German. 122 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bobbs Merrill
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780915144334ISBN:0915144336
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Text in English, German. 122 p. Audience: General/trade. some underlining. Trade paper. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
Description: Used: Very Good. Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Embossed Owner Stamp On Title Page Along With Stamped Price. Text In English, German. 122 P. Audience: General/Trade. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
ISBN-13:9780915144259ISBN:0915144255
Description: Fine. 0915144255 Hackett trade paperback, 1982 printing, immaculate/unread, No marks/creases or defects, only slight wear (like new). read more
"Kant is difficult. While the goal of Kant's philosophizing, to establish the requirements of scientific metaphysics, may or may not appeal to you, the way that he constructs the argument and his suppositions about subjects, objects, nature, and how we come to knowledge are central to a huge amount of modern thought. As painful as it was, I'm glad someone made me read this book.
Dismayed that no one was reading his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant wrote the Prolegomena as a concise version of the same argument for us neophytes. Rather than propose a metaphysical system, Kant asks whether metaphysics, inquiry into topics like the soul, God, and the world, is even possible. In order for metaphysics to be actual, there must be synthetic cognition a priori, that is cognition that adds new material rather than analyze that which already exists, and that does so "before the fact" or without the need of experience.
Kant finds that this must be possible, because this type of cognition exists in mathematics and natural philosophy. These disciplines add new knowledge but do so without relying on experience. Rather, Kant believes that they explore the very possibility of experience, which he calls the "forms" or "categories" of sensibility and understanding. These forms, which include space, time, and causality, all belong to the subject, not the object of experience. Therefore, the world that we know is the word of appearances, which are intuitions of objects "out there," experienced by us as existing in time and space in causal relationships. I'm pretty sure I had the exact same thought once when I was really high.
Kant's prognosis for the future of metaphysics is pretty grim, though, as unlike mathematics or natural philosophy, metaphysics doesn't even have a possible object of experience. The only possibility he can think of is reasoning by analogy, so that we can think "at the boundary" between the field of experience and that which lies beyond it. Heavy stuff."
"This text is essentially a concise summary of the work accomplished by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, in which the great thinker answers the following: 1)How is pure mathematics possible? 2) How is pure natural science possible? 3)How is metaphysics in general possible? 4) How is metaphysics as a science possible? These are of course the most crucial topics in all transcendental thought, and this volume is possibly the most successful microcosm of Kant's thought. However, for all real students of Kant, the Critique must be read in its entirety."
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