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Postscript

Kant’s Practical Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2018

Marcus Willaschek
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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The book closes with a brief Postscript on Kant’s ‘practical metaphysics.’ In the Critique of Practical Reason and elsewhere, Kant introduces three ‘postulates of pure practical reason’, which concern God’s existence, freedom of the will, and the immortality of the soul. We briefly discuss whether reason eventually finds in a practical mode what it had been looking for in a speculative mode, namely, the unconditioned. (The answer is: almost, but not quite.)

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Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
The Dialectic of Pure Reason
, pp. 270 - 275
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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  • Postscript
  • Marcus Willaschek, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Book: Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 09 November 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560856.016
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  • Postscript
  • Marcus Willaschek, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Book: Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 09 November 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560856.016
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  • Postscript
  • Marcus Willaschek, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Book: Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 09 November 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560856.016
Available formats
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