Heidegger's Interpretation Of Kant

Heidegger attempted to attain the horizon for the question concerning Being by means of the interpretation of Kant. For Heidegger, the problem of the possibility of synthetic judgments a priori must be retrieved. This couldn't mean that we retreat to Kant's answer. It turned out that Being itself had been dispersed in a multiplicity in history of metaphysics. Heidegger's attention is to investigate the multiplicity of Being in order to attain the meaning of Being in general as core. Accordingly, Heidegger's investigation was to acquire the horizon for the question concerning Being, its structure and multiplicity.This dissertation pays attention to, especially, the inner clues in the development of Heidegger's thinking, as follows: his origin of neo-Kantianism, of phenomenology, and his background of theology. Therefore this dissertation at first clarifies the start point of Heidegger's interpretation of Kant. This clarification concerns the fundamental ontology, phenomenological hermeneutics as well as Heidegger's critique of neo-Kantianism. Then, this dissertation discusses Husserl's debate with Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and the debate between Heidegger and Cassirer in Davos. On the basis of analysis of Heidegger's main works of interpretation of Kant: Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics and Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, this dissertation clarifies the intention of Heidegger's ontological interpretation of Kant, that is, the laying of the ground for metaphysics. At last, on the basis of analysis of Heidegger's Kehre, this dissertation shows the changes of Heidegger's interpretation of Kant in Heidegger I and Heidegger II. This changes just lurk in Kant's Thesis about Being and What is a thing. The truth of Kehre is that the earlier Heidegger's interpretation of Kant grounds in fundamental ontology, and the later grounds in the history of metaphysics. If the earlier Heidegger's ontological interpretation of Kant were principally constructive, then we could say, the later Heidegger's critique of Kant's subjective metaphysics were essentially destructive. This dissertation starting from the perspective of Heidegger's interpretation of Kant, and being as main line, attempts to get through from the Heidegger I to the Heidegger II and to follow the tracks of Heidegger's thinking about Being.