Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics
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full text: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783) Immanuel Kant Copyright 1997, James Fieser (jfieser@utm.edu). See endnote for details on copyright and editing. The following is based on Paul Carus's 1902 translation of the Prolegomena. Spelling has been Americanized. A few of Lewis White Beck's conventions have been adopted from his revision of Carus's translation, such as replacing the word "cognise" with "knowledge."1 Contents: Introduction. Preamble On The Peculiarities Of All Metaphysical Cognition. First Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is Pure Mathematics Possible? Second Part Of The Transcendental Problem: How Is The Science Of Nature Possible? Third Part Of The Main Transcendental Problem: How Is Metaphysics In General Possible? Conclusion: On The Determination Of The Bounds Of Pure Reason. Solution Of The General Question Of The Prolegomena: "How Is Metaphysics Possible As A Science?" Appendix: On What Can Be Done To Make Metaphysics Actual As A Science. * * * * INTRODUCTION. These Prolegomena are destined for the use, not of pupils, but of future teachers, and even the latter should not expect that they will be serviceable for the systematic exposition of a ready-made science, but merely for the discovery of the science itself. There are scholarly men, to whom the history of philosophy (both ancient and modern) is philosophy itself; for these the present Prolegomena are not written. They must wait till those who endeavor to draw from the fountain of reason itself have completed their work; it will then be the historian's turn to inform the world of what has been done. Unfortunately, nothing can be said, which in their opinion has not been said before, and truly the same prophecy applies to all future time; for since the human reason has for many centuries speculated upon innumerable objects in various ways, it is hardly to be expected that we should not be able to discover analogies for every new idea among the old sayings of past ages. My object is to…