ABSTRACT
After a brief summary of the Copernican revolution in the Preface, where it is advanced as the general solution to the problem of metaphysics, Kant leaves it to the reader to extrapolate the exact nature of his philosophical revolution from the specific doctrines that follow in the Critique. Understanding the arguments of the Critique is however made considerably easier by having in advance a fuller idea of the Copernican revolution than can be gleaned from the Preface. Accordingly, this chapter attempts to set out the line of thought underlying Kant’s Copernicanism, in terms that as far as possible avoid the technicalities of his philosophy.
