Book contents
- Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics
- Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Wolff, Crusius, and Kant
- Chapter 2 The “Thorny Paths of Critique”
- Chapter 3 Ontology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy
- Chapter 4 Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads
- Chapter 5 The 1781 Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding
- Chapter 6 The Schematism of the Pure Understanding
- Chapter 7 Transcendental Reflection
- Chapter 8 Kant’s Projected System of Pure Reason
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Chapter 1 - Wolff, Crusius, and Kant
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2020
Book contents
- Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics
- Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Wolff, Crusius, and Kant
- Chapter 2 The “Thorny Paths of Critique”
- Chapter 3 Ontology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy
- Chapter 4 Things in Themselves, Transcendental Objects, and Monads
- Chapter 5 The 1781 Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding
- Chapter 6 The Schematism of the Pure Understanding
- Chapter 7 Transcendental Reflection
- Chapter 8 Kant’s Projected System of Pure Reason
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
Chapter 1 elaborates on the historical context within which Kant developed his critique of early post-Leibnizian philosophy. It presents the pertinent elements of Wolff’s highly influential metaphysics and theory of cognition as well as the main thrust of Crusius’s critique of Wolff. Since Kant targeted both Wolff, Crusius, and those who followed in their wake, the chapter also discusses the main tenets of Crusius’s own metaphysics and the controversies that resulted from efforts among early post-Wolffian philosophers to reconcile Leibnizian monadology and Newtonian physics.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Kant's Reform of MetaphysicsThe <I>Critique of Pure Reason</I> Reconsidered, pp. 16 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020