Wissenschaft und Weisheit. Kant über die Formen der Metaphysik

The article explores Kant's conception of metaphysics in its systematic tension between a doctrine of science (Wissenschaftslehre) und a doctrine of wisdom (Weisheitslehre). The first section analyzes the methodological and architectonic relation between transcendental critique and theoretical metaphysics in Kant's critical philosophy, especially in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787). The second section presents Kant's critical conception of a limitative metaphysics of (psychological) antimaterialism, (cosmological) anti-determinism und (theological) anti-fatalism in the Prolegomena toAny Future Metaphysics (1783). The third section deals with Kant's critical conception of a practical dogmatic metaphysics of the "supersensible in us, above us and after us" in the fragmentary PrizeEssay on the Advances of Metaphysics (1793).