A Comparative Study between the Buddhist Perspective and Immanuel Kant’s Perspective towards Metaphysics

Abstract

The term ‘metaphysics’ should be firstly defined before going into its deeper analyses with reference to both Buddhist perspectives and Kant’s views on metaphysics. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy which deals with the first causes of the things that includes the terms like being, time, space and knowing. Other definition of metaphysics is that they are abstracts with no basis in reality. Later it was interpreted as the science of things which transcends what is physical or natural. Both the Buddha and Immanuel Kant have been explained metaphysics in a similar manner. Although some religions try to prove the existence of God by using a number of arguments, the Buddha do not accept the existence of a creator God. Kant also denies the existence of the God by using three arguments. Even in ordinary sense, by knowing metaphysical things, it would affect neither to one’s personnel growth nor to the development of the world. Nevertheless, it would be helpful to understand the world.