%0 Journal Article
%T Metaphysics after Metaphysics: The Limitative Conception of First Philosophy in Kant
%A G¨¹nter Z£¿ller
%J Prolegomena
%D 2003
%I Society for the Advancement of Philosophy, Zagreb
%X The essay examines Kant¡¯s Enlightenment conception of metaphysics as a science (Wissenschaft) to be kept free of ideological prejudice and extrarational cognitive resources and to be established under the conditions of public, intersubjectively valid discourse. I analyze Kant¡¯s self-interpretation of his transcendental philosophy as ¡°metaphysics of metaphysics¡± and argue for the extensional partial identity of the critique of metaphysics and the metaphysics so rendered possible. In particular, I identify the ¡°future metaphysics¡± envisioned by Kant as the ¡°metaphysics of nature in general¡± or the ¡°physiology of pure reason,¡± which was projected by Kant but never carried out by himself and is not to be confused with the ¡°metaphysics of material nature¡± presented by Kant in his Metaphysical Principles of Natural Science (1786). I further show how in Kant the ¡°restriction¡± (Beschr nkung) of the understanding and its pure concepts (categories) to sensible intuition is counterbalanced by the ¡°bounding¡± (Begrenzung) of sensibility and its formal conditions (space and time) to the appearances, at the exclusion of the ¡°empty space¡± of the non-sensory. In drawing on Kant¡¯s distinction between ¡°limit¡± (Schranke) and ¡°boundary¡± (Grenze), I establish the precise position of critical metaphysics ¡°on the boundary¡± of the world of sense and the world of the understanding. In concluding, I argue that for Kant a ¡°future metaphysics that will be possible as science¡± is restricted to transcendental philosophy, at the exclusion of the theoretical cognition of the supersensible, which is thereby delegated forever to the object domain of practically based rational but non-scientific belief or faith (Vernunftglaube).
%K Immanuel Kant
%K metaphysics
%K metaphysics of metaphysics
%K Critique of Pure Reason
%K Prolegomena
%K transcendental philosophy
%K science
%K faith
%K boundary
%K limit
%U http://www.hrstud.hr/prolegomena/Pro-2003-2/Pro-2003-2-Clanci-Zoeller.pdf