Abstract

The article investigates the notion of “metaphysics” in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, with emphasis on the idea and significance of metaphysics in the theoretical and practical use of reason. The author presents the Kantian interpretation of the term “metaphysics”, which determines the way Kant understood the task of the science of metaphysics. Metaphysics is also treated as the unavoidable outcome of the use of reason, which pursues completeness in knowledge. Nevertheless, the outcome of metaphysical speculation can never satisfy reason in its theoretical aspirations. The article also presents the consequences of the Kantian transposition of the objects of metaphysics to the terrain of practical reason, where their reality is postulated in view of moral perfection, which is the goal of mankind.