Comparing Kant's Prolegomen To Any Future Metaphysics

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In Kant’s Prolegomen to Any Future Metaphysics, Kant launches a brand new method of doing philosophy especially in metaphysics, which is fundamentally partial to all ensuing philosophy. Kant’s prototype is the “Copernican Turn” which abandons the study of incomprehensible reality in favor of questions into the world of appearances and instinctive structures of the mind that determine the nature of experience. Kant’s description of this is only through an account of the priori principals of the mind can knowledge and information be confirmed and with reason, and as a result leads to metaphysics as a science which would be an accepted body of knowledge and facts. Kant calls his change in the way people think, the “Copernican Turn” because he hopes to complete, in metaphysics, the same sort of change in the way of seeing things that Copernicus completed in the study of astronomy. …show more content…
In other words, Kant states that objects go along with our knowledge, this way rejecting the usual view that knowledge goes along with objects in the world (Kant). But unlike Copernicus, Kant rejects the usual view of