Abstract
The essay investigates the relation between metaphysics and practical philosophy in Kant by reconstructing Kant`s systematic typology of metaphysics as developed in his critical writings. Section 1 deals with Kant's rigorous reduction of philosophy to metaphysics. The focus here is on the epistemological turn effectuated by Kant with regard to metaphysics (theoretical metaphysics). Section 2 is concerned with Kant's reconceptualization of (pure) practical philosophy as a metaphysics sui generis. At the center stands here Kant's supplementation of the metaphysics of nature through a metaphysics of morals based on moral freedom (practical metaphysics). Section 3 addresses the merging of theoretical and practical metaphysics in Kant. The focus here lies on Kant's introduction of a novel, practically validated form of (quasi-)theoretical metaphysics (practico-theoretical metaphysics). Throughout the essay combines an analytic interest in the forms and functions of metaphysics in Kant with a systematic interest in the practical and practico-theoretical transformation of previously theoretical metaphysics in Kant, which morphs from a doctrine of the objects of nature through a doctrine of the laws of freedom to a doctrine of wisdom regarding the supersensible.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy |
| ISSN: | 2318-0501 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 103369 |
| Date Deposited: | 05. Jun 2023 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 17. Oct 2023 15:13 |
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