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9 - Transcendental Realism and Kant’s Critique of Speculative Metaphysics

from Part II - The Other Side of the Transcendental Dialectic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2018

Marcus Willaschek
Affiliation:
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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Summary

Chapter 9 examines Kant’s critique of metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason. We discuss transcendental realism and its relation to transcendental idealism and then argue that rejecting transcendental realism does not presuppose transcendental idealism. Next, we will see that even on its most general level, Kant’s critique of metaphysics does depends not on transcendental idealism but on the much more specific claim that human cognition is limited to sensible objects. Finally, we will distinguish between different interpretations of Kant’s account of transcendental ideas and argue for a radical reading according to which, when viewed in a purely speculative context, ideas of reason fail to represent (really possible) objects, which accounts for the third level of Kant’s critique of metaphysics. Our result will be that Kant develops a challenging critique of speculative metaphysics that does not presuppose his transcendental idealism.

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Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
The Dialectic of Pure Reason
, pp. 243 - 263
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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