Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
Jul 16, 2026 · 14 min · 10 segments
Kants Prolegomena contains the key to outlining the scope and limitations of the domain of metaphysical Discourse----a matter of vital concern for both Mythology and Religion. Kant, as we know was…
Michael R. D. JamesHostFor Kant, then metaphysical judgments are synthetic a priori judgments, e.g. every event has a cause.
Such a judgment is a condition of the possibility of understanding experience and making judgments about experience, i.e. such judgments proceed from the special logical relation of concepts and intuitions to one another, a relation constituted by the principle of non-contradiction.
Metaphysics, therefore, is not as such a science, but rather is constituted of synthetic a priori cognitions such as substance in things is permanent, page sixteen.
Kant then changes the direction of the inquiry to focus on the question, how are synthetic propositions a priori possible? Page twenty-one.
For Kant, then metaphysical judgments are synthetic a priori judgments, e.g. every event has a cause.
Such a judgment is a condition of the possibility of understanding experience and making judgments about experience, i.e. such judgments proceed from the special logical relation of concepts and intuitions to one another, a relation constituted by the principle of non-contradiction.
Metaphysics, therefore, is not as such a science, but rather is constituted of synthetic a priori cognitions such as substance in things is permanent, page sixteen.
Kant then changes the direction of the inquiry to focus on the question, how are synthetic propositions a priori possible? Page twenty-one.
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