Kant's Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories

Abstract

The paper provides an insight into Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy, as presented in his work Critique of Pure Reason. One of the most significant questions in transcendental logic is the problem of categories. Kant presents the basic concepts of human understanding in the metaphysical deduction of the categories, while in the transcendental deduction he proves the validity of the categories. This analysis primarly focuses on the question of the metaphysical deduction, with some discussion of the concept of the thing-in-itself. Additionaly, the paper presents the peculiar character and the special basic concepts of transcendental idealism.