Rather, its chief interest to the student of philosophy is probably the way in which it goes beyond and against the views of contemporary positivism. The Prolegomena, however, is not interesting merely as an historical anticipation of recent views indeed, as such it has been as it were condemned in advance by Kant (Prolegomena, Introduction). Though Kant's arguments against speculative metaphysics differ from those of our contemporaries, in some of his results he anticipates their negative conclusions. We live in one of the recurring periods of intellectual and cultural history that are skeptical and impatient of systems of speculative metaphysics, and a distrust of speculation is the leading motif of the Prolegomena. It deals with the perennially baffling questions: How do we know? How much can we know? Its answers to these questions are interesting especially now. Kant’s Prolegomena - its full title, in the eighteenth-century manner, is Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Which Will Be Able to Come Forth as Science - is a classic in metaphysics and the theory of knowledge.
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