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Kant's Inaugural Dissertation and the Problem of Rational Cosmology.
- Source :
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Review of Metaphysics . Dec2022, Vol. 76 Issue 2, p1-27. 27p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Kant's 1770 Dissertation is surprisingly rarely read as a cosmological treatise about the "world." The few commentators who do so invariably claim that, in the fourth section of the work, Kant presents a purely intellectual cosmology, a relic of dogmatic, Leibnizian-Wolffian metaphysics. This article aims to show that attention to some often-overlooked passages yields a very different picture. Key to how Kant conceives of the form of the world is his distinction between the relations of co-ordination and subordination of substances. On the basis of this distinction, the author argues that the "principle of the form of the intelligible world" does not pertain to a transcendent intelligible world. Instead, the principle concerns an intellectual perspective on the world of substances co-ordinated in space and time. This interpretation has various consequences for our understanding of the development of Kant's critical philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *METAPHYSICAL cosmology
*PHYSICAL cosmology
*METAPHYSICS
*JOURNALISTS
*RELICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00346632
- Volume :
- 76
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Review of Metaphysics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160783278