Prolegomena to any future metaphysics

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• mbateman · Jul 10, 2010 · Recommends

  …Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Spinoza + The Courtier and the Heretic, Stewart (on Spinoza and Leibniz) Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Kant On Liberty, Mill "Modern Moral Philosophy", Anscombe "What is Capitalism?", Rand The Bounds of Sense, Strawson + "Rawls on Justice", Nagel "The Naturalists Return", Kitcher Sources of Normativity,…

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• coldtea · Dec 6, 2020 · Recommends

  …philosopher that doesn't understand science. That's the genius writer and mathematician A.N Whitehead that worked with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica. 2) Aristotle, The Metaphysics 3) Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics 4) David Hume's: A Treatise of Human Nature and/or An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 5) Nietchze, The gay science (meaning "the joyful science") 6) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations…

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• pxc · Oct 25, 2021 · Recommends

  …been a long time, though. Maybe it's time to reread and then pick up this book! For those interested, the two source texts to consider in light of this book if you don't want to dig too deep, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics and Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation are both public domain and relatively accessible/clear for the subject matter.

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• psteitz · Oct 16, 2022 · Recommends

  This is a hard. Books that made me a better thinker have to be the hard ones / ones that made me change. Top two would be Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Immanuel Kant. Supposedly more accessible version of Critique of Pure Reason but still very hard and mind-bending for me at least. Not just philosophy was easier after wrestling with this content. The…

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• nabla9 · Feb 2, 2017 · Mentions

  …traditionally part of philosophy. In practice there is no real border between philosophy and formal sciences (logic, mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science). Consider the problem Kant faced in Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, §13. Two objects that are intrinsically alike must be interchangeable. But there are objects that are intrinsically alike and you can't exchange them. Kant was incredible philosopher but he was thrown…

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• walter_bishop · Dec 2, 2016 · Mentions

  …It's interesting to put that quote in context: "I have always felt it as a stroke of good fortune that early in life, at about the age of fifteen, I lighted, in my fathers library, on a copy of Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics. The book made at the time a powerful and inextinguishable impression on me, the like of which I never afterwards experienced in any of my philosophical reading. Some two or three years later the superfluity…

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• cafard · Jul 22, 2020 · Mentions

  Not all books are best taken in by ear. How would Kant work, say Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics? It's around a hundred pages, but a hundred slow pages.

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• cafard · Dec 27, 2012 · Mentions

  …Understanding by John Locke, started in 2011, finished this year War and the Iliad essays by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, and Herman Broch EIMI by E.E. Cummings, his account of a visit to the USSR in 1931 Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Can Be Considered As a Science, Immanuel Kant (reread many years after the first reading--interesting to be reminded how awful translations from German can be) Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard…

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• ethn · Jun 7, 2021 · Mentions

  …introduction to Critique of Pure Reason it works from the conclusions of that work and why those conclusions are necessary. We can remember the title isn't Prolegomena to Critique of Pure Reason but instead Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.

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• viccis · May 22, 2025 · Mentions

  …text or image corpora), then can it really ever create anything novel that doesn't draw directly from an impression? Kant delivered a decisive response to this with his Critique of Pure Reason and his Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. He focused initially on Hume's biggest skepticism (about causality). Hume claimed that when we expect an effect from a cause, it's not because we're truly understanding how an effect can proceed from…

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