Critique of Pure ReasonOften called Kant's "first critique," this is a foundational work of modern philosophy, one that attempts to define the very nature of reason, and to join the two schools of thought dominant in the late 18th century: that of Empiricism and Rationalism. At the border between thinking subject to religion and realities as the burgeoning sciences were demonstrating at the time, Kant explores ethics, the limits of human knowledge, logic, deduction, observation, and intuition, and in the process laid the groundwork for the modern intellect. First published in 1781, this is required reading for anyone wishing to be considerd well educated. German metaphysician IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) served as a librarian of the Royal Library, a prestigious government position, and as a professor at Knigsberg University. His other works include Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764), Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), and Critique of Practical Reason (1788). |
Contents
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 |
Sceptical Exposition of the Cosmological Problems | 275 |
THE IDEAL OF PURE REASON | 318 |
Detection and Explanation of the Dialectical Illusion in | 344 |
INTRODUCTION | 397 |
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Of the Application of the Categories to Objects of the Senses | 86 |
2885 | 94 |
Analogies of Experience | 122 |
The Postulates of Empirical Thought | 142 |
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 |
The Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis | 432 |
The Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs | 439 |
The Canon of Pure Reason | 446 |
Of Opinion Knowledge and Belief | 460 |
The Architectonic of Pure Reason | 466 |
The History of Pure Reason | 477 |
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