Critique of Pure ReasonIn his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argues that human knowledge is limited by the capacity for perception. He attempts a logical designation of two varieties of knowledge: a posteriori, knowledge acquired through experience, and a priori, knowledge not derived through experience. Kant maintains that the most practical forms of human knowledge employ a priori judgments that are possible only when the mind determines the conditions of its own experience. A cornerstone of Western philosophy, this seminal treatise was originally published in 1781. Kant, whose life was dedicated to a quiet and passionate quest for truth, expresses herein his unique system of philosophical thought, and his approach, known as transcendental idealism, based on meticulous investigations of metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. This translation by J. M. Meiklejohn offers a simple and direct rendering of Kant's work that is suitable for readers at all levels. |
Contents
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Idea and Division of a Particular Science under the Name | 15 |
TRANSCENDENTAL AESTHETIC | 21 |
OF TIME | 28 |
TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC | 44 |
Of the Division of Transcendental Logic into Transcendental | 51 |
PAGE | 52 |
Of the Ground of the division of all objects into Phe | 156 |
APPENDIx Of the Equivocal Nature or Amphiboly of the Con | 168 |
Second Division | 186 |
OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF PURE REASON | 196 |
OF THE DIALECTICAL PROCEDURE OF PURE REASON | 212 |
OF THE ConCEPTIONS OF PURE REASON 196 | 221 |
The Antinomy of Pure Reason | 230 |
THE IDEAL OF PURE REASON | 318 |
Of the Deduction of the Pure Conceptions of the | 65 |
Short view of the above Deduction | 96 |
System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding | 106 |
Analogies of Experience | 122 |
The Postulates of Empirical Thought | 142 |
TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF METHOD | 397 |
The Canon of Pure Reason | 446 |
The Architectonic of Pure Reason | 466 |
The History of Pure Reason | 477 |
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