Metaphysics in Königsberg prior to Kant (1703-1770)

Foundation of Kant’s Moral Philosophy and Its Reinterpretation. a Quintessential Humanistic Doctrine

1 considered the founder of modern philosophy, was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, (which today is Kaliningrad in Russia) on April 22, 1724. He came from a Protestant family of Pietists. Kant attended the University of Königsberg and became an instructor at the university. For fifteen years he lectured and wrote on various topics in metaphysics, logic, natural sciences: physics, astronomy, ge...

Prior on the Logic and the Metaphysics of Time

In this paper I explore three related topics emerging from Prior’s work on the logic of time. First, what is the proper province of logic, if any? Is temporal (modal) logic just logic, on a par with the paradigmatic case of first order quantification theory or even simple propositional logic? Second, what counts as an interpretation of a formal system? In particular, can formal semantics provid...

From Kant to Fichte1

Few periods in the history of philosophy manifest the degree of dynamism and historical complexity that characterize early post-Kantian philosophy. The reasons for this special character of so-called " classical German philosophy " are no doubt themselves quite complex. Institutional and political circumstances certainly played an important role. The end of the eighteenth century marks a point ...

Dmd052084 1703..1714

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From Kant to entwined Naturalism