Open AccessKant’s critique of pure reason and the dogmatism of metaphysics
Author(s) -
Aleksandar Lukic
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo2101023l
Subject(s) - metaphysics , philosophy , transcendental number , epistemology , dismissal , meaning (existential) , transcendental philosophy , a priori and a posteriori , foundation (evidence) , focus (optics) , law , physics , optics , political science
In this paper, the author explores Kant?s Copernican revolution that departs from philosophical tradition. Kant challenges a view that the existence of the world (with the totality of all laws that hold in it) is independent of the knower. In view of that, the main focus is on Kant?s analysis of the meaning of a priori knowledge and the critique of old (dogmatic) metaphysics. The aim of this critique, however, was not the dismissal of metaphysics as such, but rather the transcendental foundation of a new one.