Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE FIFTH EDITION ix
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH EDITION xi
REFERENCES TO WORKS OF KANT AND HEIDEGGER xv
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION xvii
PREFACES TO THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD EDITIONS xix
1
Introduction
The Theme and Structure of the Investigation
The unfolding of the idea of a Fundamental Ontology through the interpretation of the
Critique of Pure Reason as a laying of the ground for Metaphysics
3-12
PART ONE
The Starting Point for the Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics
3
§1. The Traditional Concept of Metaphysics
6
§2. The Point of Departure for the Laying of the Ground for Traditional Metaphysics
9
§3. The Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics as "Critique of Pure Reason"
13-88
PART TWO
Carrying Out the Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics
14
A. THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DIMENSION OF GOING-BACK [NEEDED]
FOR CARRYING OUT THE LAYING OF THE GROUND FOR METAPHYSICS
14
I. THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIELD OF ORIGIN
14
§4. The Essence of Knowledge in General
18
§5. The Essence of the Finitude of Knowledge
24
§6. The Ground for the Source of the Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics
26
II. THE MANNER OF UNVEILING THE ORIGIN
26
§7. The Outline of the Stages in the Laying of the Ground for Ontology
28
§8. The Method for Revealing the Origin
30
B. THE STAGES OF CARRYING OUT THE PROJECTION OF THE INNER
POSSIBILITY OF ONTOLOGY
30
THE FIRST STAGE IN THE GROUND-LAYING: THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
OF PURE KNOWLEDGE
31
A) PURE INTUITION IN FINITE KNOWING
31
§9. The Elucidation of Space and Time as Pure Intuitions
34
§10. Time as the Universal Pure Intuition
36
B) PURE THINKING IN FINITE KNOWING
36
§11. The Pure Concept of Understanding (Notion)
39
§12. Notions as Ontological Predicates (Categories)
41
THE SECOND STAGE OF THE GROUND-LAYING:
THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF PURE KNOWLEDGE
42
§13. The Question Concerning the Essential Unity of Pure Knowledge
43
§14. The Ontological Synthesis
46
§15. The Problem of the Categories and the Role of
Transcendental Logic
48
THE THIRD STAGE OF THE GROUND-LAYING: THE INNER POSSIBILITY
OF THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF ONTOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS
50
§16. The Elucidation of the Transcendence of Finite Reason
as Basic Intention of the Transcendental Deduction
53
§17. The Two Ways of the Transcendental Deduction
55
a) The First Way
57
b) The Second Way
60
§18. The External Form of the Transcendental Deduction
62
THE FOURTH STAGE OF THE GROUND-LAYING: THE GROUND
FOR THE INNER POSSIBILITY OF ONTOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
63
§19. Transcendence and Making-Sensible
65
§20. Image and Schema
68
§21. Schema and Schema-Image
72
§22. The Transcendental Schematism
77
§23. Schematism and Subsumption
80
THE FIFTH STAGE OF THE GROUND-LAYING: THE FULL ESSENTIAL
DETERMINATION OF ONTOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
81
§24. The Highest Synthetic Principle as the Full Determination
of the Essence of Transcendence
85
§25. Transcendence as the Laying of the Ground for
Metaphysica Generalis
89-142
PART THREE
The Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in Its Originality
89
A. THE EXPLICIT CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GROUND LAID
IN THE GROUND-LAYING
89
§26. The Formative Center of Ontological Knowledge
as Transcendental Power of Imagination
94
§27. The Transcendental Power of Imagination as the
Third Basic Faculty
97
B. THE TRANSCENDENTAL POWER OF IMAGINATION AS
ROOT OF BOTH STEMS
99
§28. The Transcendental Power of Imagination and Pure Intuition
102
§29. The Transcendental Power of Imagination and
Theoretical Reason
109
§30. The Transcendental Power of Imagination and Practical Reason
112
§31. The Originality of the Previously Laid Ground and Kant's
Shrinking-Back from the Transcendental Power of Imagination
120
C. THE TRANSCENDENTAL POWER OF IMAGINATION AND THE PROBLEM
OF HUMAN PURE REASON
121
§32. The Transcendental Power of Imagination and
Its Relation to Time
123
§33. The Inner Temporal Character of the Transcendental Power of
Imagination
125
a) Pure Synthesis as Pure Apprehension
127
b) Pure Synthesis as Pure Reproduction
128
c) Pure Synthesis as Pure Recognition
132
§34. Time as Pure Self-Affection and the Temporal Character
of the Self
137
§35. The Originality of the Previously Laid Ground and
the Problem of Metaphysics
143-173
PART FOUR
The Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in a Retrieval
144
A. THE LAYING OF THE GROUND FOR METAPHYSICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
144
§36. The Previously Laid Ground and the Outcome of the Kantian
Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics
146
§37. The Idea of a Philosophical Anthropology
150
§38. The Question Concerning the Human Essence and the Authentic
Result of the Kantian Ground-Laying
153
B. THE PROBLEM OF FINITUDE IN HUMAN BEINGS AND THE
METAPHYSICS OF DASEIN
153
§39. The Problem of a Possible Determination of Finitude
in Human Beings
155
§40. The Original Working-Out of the Question of Being as
the Way to the Problem of Finitude in Human Beings
158
§41. The Understanding of Being and Dasein in Human Beings
162
C. THE METAPHYSICS OF DASEIN AS FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY
162
§42. The Idea of a Fundamental Ontology
164
§43. The Inception and the Course of Fundamental Ontology
167
§44. The Goal of Fundamental Ontology
170
§45. The Idea of Fundamental Ontology and the
Critique of Pure Reason
APPENDICES
175
I. NOTES ON THE KANTBOOK
180
II. ERNST CASSIRER: PHILOSOPHY OF SYMBOLIC FORMS. PART TWO:
MYTHICAL THOUGHT. BERLIN, 1925
191
III. DAVOS LECTURES: KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON AND THE TASK OF
A LAYING OF THE GROUND FOR METAPHYSICS
193
IV. DAVOS DISPUTATION BETWEEN ERNST CASSIRER AND MARTIN HEIDEGGER
208
V. ON ODEBRECHT'S AND CASSIRER'S CRITIQUES OF THE KANTBOOK
213
VI. ON THE HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL CHAIR SINCE 1866
218
REFERENCES FOR APPENDICES
219
EDITOR'S AFTERWORD
223
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (GA 3) [GA App]
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