Immanuel Kant’s Metaphysical Perspectives: Innovative Insights

What is metaphysics?It is not easy to say.If we look to work in metaphysics, we will find different characteristics.Sometimes it seems that metaphysics is descriptive in nature and sometimes they are normative.However, disagreements about the nature of metaphysics are associated with its long history.Metaphysics has been practiced for more than 2000 years.As a result, there is a problem in defining the subject matter and methodology of metaphysics.Similarly, there is ambiguity about the origin of the word 'Metaphysics'.By collecting Aristotle's untitled writings, his later thinker Andronicus accidentally named it Metaphysics.Aristotle called it First Philosophy, Theology.The aim of metaphysics is to attain knowledge or wisdom.From that on time, we understand by Metaphysics whatever is discussed in this book.The subject matter of metaphysics is the search for the first cause of reality.However, this first cause is at the same time the prime being and unmoved mover, which is non-cause itself, the cause of all driving forces.On the other hand, Metaphysics as a general being or being qua being which is the first cause of the world.Aristotle's metaphysical ideas also influenced later philosophers.According to the medieval philosopher Saint Augustine, God is the metaphysical principle.God is Immanent and transcendent in the soul.Everything which is related to God is true.According to Anselm, God is the highest being, which is nothing greater than its thought.He believes that the real existence of God is derived from the idea of God.Aquinas criticizes and says that the existence of ideas can be derived from ideas, not real existence.Like Aristotle, he refers to God as the first cause and unmoved mover of the world.But in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, metaphysics is not limited to the discussion of first causes or the general being of the world, but also includes the mind-body problem, freedom of will, immortality of the soul, etc. Kant criticizes this type of metaphysics and says knowledge is the result of the combined process of experience and intellect.The aim of my article is to discuss how Kantian metaphysics to open a new door to us.