Book contents
- Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
- Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on References and Citations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I From Reason to Metaphysics
- Part II The Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Postscript
Kant’s Practical Metaphysics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2018
- Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
- Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on References and Citations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I From Reason to Metaphysics
- Part II The Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
The book closes with a brief Postscript on Kant’s ‘practical metaphysics.’ In the Critique of Practical Reason and elsewhere, Kant introduces three ‘postulates of pure practical reason’, which concern God’s existence, freedom of the will, and the immortality of the soul. We briefly discuss whether reason eventually finds in a practical mode what it had been looking for in a speculative mode, namely, the unconditioned. (The answer is: almost, but not quite.)
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- Kant on the Sources of MetaphysicsThe Dialectic of Pure Reason, pp. 270 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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