Volume-XI, Issue-I, January 2025 |
প্রসঙ্গ অধিবিদ্যার সম্ভাব্যতা: হিউম ও কান্ট সোহেল রানা, গবেষক, দর্শন ও জীবন-জগৎ বিভাগ, বিদ্যাসাগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Received: 29.11.2024 | Accepted: 25.12.2024 | Published Online: 31.01.2025 | Page No: 01-09 | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.11.issue.01W.001 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
Metaphysics is one of the most important branches of philosophy. It deals mainly with the true nature or reality of things. In metaphysical discourse, the fundamental question is: Is metaphysics possible at all? Philosophers have given various answers to this question from different perspectives. In this paper, we have discussed the views of David Hume and Immanuel Kant on the possibility of metaphysics. In doing so, following Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), firstly, we have discussed the distinction between two types of philosophy namely easy and obvious philosophy and abstruse philosophy; secondly, the distinction between two types of metaphysics consists of abstruse philosophy has been discussed. Further, following Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1781), the discussion has been made on the nature of pure reason, two types of metaphysics and their problems, conditions of pure knowledge etc. Lastly, a comparative discussion has been made between the views of Hume and Kant. Keywords: Metaphysics, true and false metaphysics, mental geography, pure reason, transcendental Metaphysics. |