Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Using the methods of science, Kant demonstrates that though each mind may, indeed, create its own universe, those universes are guided by certain common laws, which are rationally discernible. Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason as an attempt to bridge the gap between rationalism (there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience) and empiricism (sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge) and, in particular, to counter the radical empiricism of David Hume (our beliefs are purely the result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences). The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age. Translated by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1836 - 1902)

Of course, there’s an inevitable problem that arises there because if you’re asking questions about what lies beyond the limits of knowledge then inevitably the question arises: can you hope to know any answers to such questions? For if you claim you can, aren’t you involved in self-stultification? So, all these tensions are there throughout the Critique, and they’re part of what makes it such a fascinating read.” Read more.Download cover art Download CD case insert The Critique of Pure Reason On the one hand, he’s keen to approach them, to map out the limits from within by doing as much as possibly can be done through the exercise of reason but he’s also interested in stepping up a level and looking at them from above, asking questions of principle about where these limits are to be drawn and what might lie beyond them.

The early reviews were hostile and uncomprehending, and Kants attempt to make his theories more accessible in his. He’s interested in these limits in various different senses. In 1781 Kant finally published his great work, the Critique of Pure Reason. This is Kant’s masterpiece…He’s interested in the limits to what we can know he’s interested in the limits to what we can use pure reason to ascertain he’s interested in the limits to what we can even think about. “This is the greatest philosophical book of all time. Foreign Policy & International Relations Immanuel Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason The cause for this difficulty can be traced in part to the works that Kant took as his models for philosophical writing.

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant