Kant's Concept of Metaphysics

• Authors: Poreba M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author analyses and compares a few basic senses in which Kant uses the term 'metaphysics' in his pre-critical writings and in the 'Critique of Pure Reason'. He argues that the essential meaning of the term is to be found in Kant's paper submitted to a contest, in which 'metaphysics' was defined as a philosophical investigation of the first principles of cognition. This idea has been later enlarged into an entire project of Kantian critique of reason, or into a metaphysical theory that explains the possibility of cognition and knowledge.

Keywords

EN

COGNITION; KANT I.; METAPHYSICS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 4(52)
• Pages: 87-96
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Poreba M.

• M. Poreba, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA0030721