Reading Kant's "Prolegomena" - Ep. 6

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So we now get to the point Kant has been angling towards the whole time. What do we gain from all of this thinking for metaphysics? Answer, we gain insight into the entire possible range of human understanding - only granting that the range is quite limited. He begins his argument by refuting the two major approaches to science and thinking generally prevalent in his time; idealism and empiricism. I find Kan’t powerful critique of these two outlooks helpful to keep in mind when encountering arguments that just assume the relevance and correctness of their world view and then prove something - empiricists are particularly guilty here - with little or no reflection on the often shaky foundations of their assumptions.

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