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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. With an Introduction by Lewis White Beck. (original 1783; edition 1950)

by Immanuel Kant (Author)

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Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new translation of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments, and in which Kant himself explains his special terminology. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction, explanatory notes, a chronology and a guide to further reading.… (more)
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics / Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Author) (1783)

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"If [metaphysicians] want to put forth their occupation not as science, but as an art of beneficial persuasions accommodated to general common sense, then they cannot justly be barred from this trade. They will then use the modest language of reasonable belief, they will acknowledge that it is not allowed them even once to guess, let alone to know, something about that which lies beyond the boundaries of all possible experience, but only to assume something about it (not for speculative use, for they must renounce that, but solely for practical use), as is possible and even indispensable for the guidance of the understanding and will in life."

sure, manny.... i hear you loud and clear...
  julianblower | Jul 23, 2020 |

Never will the 'I love it/ I like it/ It's okay...' rating system be less helpful than with this book. But it is okay as a helping hand for Kant's first Critique. Where the ideas are most compelling, this book is clearest; where the ideas are the least compelling, this book is dense and nonsensical (hello, tables of judgment/concepts/principles). Anyway, it's silly to rate this book. This edition, on the other hand, is great: it has a fantastic introduction, useful selections from the first critique, and the early reviews of the CPR that Kant responds to in the appendix to the Prolegomena. The translation could be smoother, but then, Kant could have been smoother too.

It sucks, but I think the best track is to read the CPR first, and then this, or maybe this, then CPR, then this again. I can't really see that you'd get much out of the Prolegomena alone. ( )
  stillatim | Dec 29, 2013 |
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Hatfield, GaryEditormain authorall editionsconfirmed
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Hatfield, Gary C.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schmidt, RaymundEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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If it becomes desirable to present any cognition as science, it will be necessary first to determine exactly its differentia, which no other science has in common with it and which constitutes its peculiarity; otherwise the boundaries of all sciences become confused, and none of them can be treated thoroughly according to its nature.
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Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new translation of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments, and in which Kant himself explains his special terminology. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction, explanatory notes, a chronology and a guide to further reading.

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Se si definisce "metafisica" una conoscenza che si svolge interamente nel pensiero, senza riferimento all'esperienza, come è possibile una metafisica critica, e non dogmatica? Guidato da questa domanda, Kant nei Prolegomeni del 1783 elabora l'idea di una conoscenza a priori, fondata sul pensiero puro, ma che sia anche sintetica, in grado cioè di aggiungere nuovi contenuti riferiti all'esperienza. Spinti dalla nostra esigenza di oltrepassare con il pensiero i limiti della conoscenza, cerchiamo continuamente di pensare l'oggetto della metafisica, per quanto esso sia fuori dalla sfera delle nostre possibilità cognitive. Se, quindi, i confini del conoscere non coincidono con quelli del pensare, è possibile sviluppare una filosofia di carattere morale e religioso e non puramente scientifico. Da qui inizia la profonda lettura di Piero Martinetti, che attraverso un commento puntuale dei passi più importanti dello scritto kantiano, ne mette in luce, accanto alla profondità teorica, l'estremo e insuperato valore etico-pratico.
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