Inaugural Dissertation of 1770
The distinction between sensible and intelligible worlds organizes an inquiry into space, time, method and the limits of sense-based knowledge.
Understanding the text
This Latin text accompanied Kant’s appointment to the chair of logic and metaphysics in Königsberg.
Key points
- 01
Sensible
Space and time are already connected with subjective conditions of sensibility.
- 02
Intelligible
Understanding still receives an access to things that the Critique would substantially revise.
- 03
Method
Confusing sensible and intellectual principles generates errors in constructing metaphysics.
How to read it
Compare the sections on space and time with the Transcendental Aesthetic. Similarities should not conceal the absence of the future deduction of the categories.
Editions & sources
Summaries and key points are original editorial interpretations. They accompany reading the work and do not replace an edition of the text. Editorial method ↗