Immanuel Kant was one of the leading lights of 18th-century philosophy; his work provided the foundations for later revolutionary thinkers such as Hegel and Marx. This work contains the keystone of his critical philosophy - the basis of human knowledge and truth.
15 Kant's copy of the first edition replaces “and” with “of” (E XXXVII, p. 23; 23:45). 16 The following note occurs in Kant's copy of the first edition: “Judgments and propositions are different. That the latterare verbis expressa ...
Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human...
This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text.
This volume will engage readers of Kant at all levels.
In particular, my task has been facilitated by the quite invaluable edition of the Critique edited by Dr. Raymund Schmidt. Indeed, the ap pearance of this edition in 1926 was the immediate occasion of my resuming the work of translation.
This thoughtful abridgment makes an ideal introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Though he is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses. This volume contains his lectures from the course on the Critique of Pure Reason.
This 1788 work, based on belief in the immortality of the soul, established Kant as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity. It offers the most complete statement of his theory of free will.
Kant sought to make a clear separation between the provinces of belief and knowledge. In his view, this is the essence of a critical philosophy.
Therefore, Kant states in the preface to the second edition, “It (the Critique} is a treatise on method, not a system of science ... Herein lies the suggestion that the Critique lays the foundation of the science of beings in general.