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Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics

The Dialectic of Pure Reason

Bibliographic Data

ID23796458
AuthorsMarcus Willaschek (corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-11-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueKant on the Sources of Metaphysics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108560856
OpenAlexW2900800520
Open LibraryOL34716261M
ISBN9781108560856
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited144

In 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

Dialectic · Epistemology · Immortality · Interpretation (philosophy) · Metaphysics · Theology · Transcendental idealism · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · War, Ethics, and Justification · immanuel Kant (1724-1804) · Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant, Immanuel)

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