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Translators’ Preface
PREPARATORY PART Various Ways to Ask about the Thing
§1. Philosophical and Scientific Questioning
§2. The Ambiguous Discourse about the Thing
§3. The Strangeness of the Question Concerning Thingness in Contrast with Scientific and Technical Methods
§4. Everyday and Scientific Experiences of the Thing: The Question Concerning Their Truth
§5. Particularity and In-Each-Case-Thisness: Space and Time as Thing-Determinations
§6. The Thing as “In Each Case This”
§7. Subjective-Objective. The Question Concerning Truth
§8. The Thing as Bearer of Properties
§9. The Essential Construction of Truth, the Thing, and the Proposition
§10. The Historicity of the Definition of the Thing
§11. Truth—Proposition (Assertion)—Thing
§12. Historicity and Decision
§13. Summary
MAIN PART Kant’s Way of Asking about the Thing
Chapter 1 The Historical Basis of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
§14. The Reception of Kant’s Work during His Lifetime; Neo-Kantianism
§15. The Title of Kant’s Chief Work
§16. The Categories as Modes of Assertedness
§17. Λόγος—Ratio—Reason
§18. Modern Mathematical Natural Science and the Emergence of a Critique of Pure Reason
a) Characterization of Modern Natural Science in Contrast to Ancient and Medieval Science
b) The Mathematical, μάθησις
c) The Mathematical Character of Modern Science: Newton’s First Law of Motion
d) Setting the Greek Experience of Nature into Relief against the Modern
α) The Experience of Nature in Aristotle and Newton
β) The Theory of Motion in Aristotle
γ) The Theory of Motion in Newton
e) The Essence of Mathematical Projection (Galileo’s Freefall Experiment)
f) The Metaphysical Sense of the Mathematical
α) The Principles: Modern Freedom, Self-Binding, and Self-Grounding
β) Descartes: cogito sum; the I as subiectum par excellence
γ) Reason as Highest Ground: Principle of the I, Principle of Contradiction
§19. History of the Question Concerning the Thing: Summary
§20. Rational Metaphysics (Wolff, Baumgarten)
Chapter 2 The Question of the Thing in Kant’s Chief Work
§21. What Does Kant Mean by “Critique”?
§22. The Relation between the “Critique” of Pure Reason and the “System of All Principles of the Pure Understanding”
§23. Interpretation of the Second Chapter of the [Second Book of the] Transcendental Analytic: “System of All Principles of Pure Understanding”
a) Kant’s Concept of Experience
b) The Thing as Thing of Nature
c) The Threefold Division of the Chapter on the System of Principles
§24. On the Highest Principle of All Analytic Judgments. Cognition and Object (A150ff./B190ff.)
a) Cognition as Human Cognition
b) Intuition and Thought as the Two Components of Cognition
c) The Twofold Determination of the Object in Kant
d) Sensibility and Understanding: Receptivity and Spontaneity
e) The Apparent Priority of Thought; Pure Understanding in Relation to Pure Intuition
f) Logic and Judgment in Kant
§25. Kant’s Essential Definition of Judgment
a) The Traditional Doctrine of Judgment
b) The Insufficiency of the Traditional Doctrine; Logicism [Logistik]
c) The Relatedness of the Judgment to the Object and to Intuition; Apperception
d) Kant’s Distinction between Analytic and Synthetic Judgments
e) A Priori—A Posteriori
f) How Are Synthetic Judgments A Priori Possible?
g) The Principle of Contradiction as the Negative Condition of the Truth of Judgment
h) The Principle of Contradiction as Negative Formulation of the Principle of Identity
i) Kant’s Transcendental Reflection: General and Transcendental Logic
j) Synthetic Judgments A Priori Necessarily Lie at the Basis of All Cognition
§26. On the Supreme Principle of All Synthetic Judgments
§27. Systematic Representation of All Synthetic Principles of Pure Understanding
a) The Principles Make Possible the Objectivity of the Object: Demonstrability of the Principles
b) Pure Understanding as Source and Faculty of Rules: Unity, Categories
c) The Mathematical and Dynamical Principles as Metaphysical Propositions
d) The Axioms of Intuition
α) Quantum and Quantitas
β) Space and Time as Quanta, as Forms of Pure Intuition
γ) The Proof of the First Principle; All Principles Are Grounded in the Supreme Principle of All Synthetic Judgments
e) The Anticipations of Perception
α) Ambiguity of the Word “Sensation”; the Doctrine of Sensation and Modern Natural Science
β) Kant’s Concept of Reality: Intensive Magnitudes
γ) Sensation in Kant in the Transcendental Sense; Proof of the Second Principle
δ) The Strangeness of the Anticipations: Reality and Sensation
ε) Mathematical Principles and the Supreme Principle: The Circularity of the Proofs
f) The Analogies of Experience
α) Analogy as Correspondence, as Relation of Relations, as Determination of Thatness [Daßseins]
β) The Analogies as Rules of Universal Time-Determination
γ) The First Analogy and Its Proof; Substance as Time-Determination
g) The Postulates of Empirical Thought
α) Objective Reality of the Categories: the Modalities as Subjective Synthetic Principles
β) The Postulates Correspond to the Essence of Experience: The Modalities Are Related to Experience, No Longer to Conceivability
γ) Being as the Being of Objects of Experience: Modalities in Relation to the Cognitive Power
δ) The Circularity of the Proofs and Elucidations
h) The Supreme Principle of All Synthetic Judgments: the Between
Conclusion
Appendix
Editor’s Afterword
German-English Glossary
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