![]() This edition also contains a bibliography and explanatory notes. His informative introduction places the work in context and elucidates Kant's main arguments. ![]() Marcus Weigelt's lucid re-working of Max Müller's classic translation makes the Critique accessible to a new generation of readers. ![]() Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives. The Critique brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. ![]() Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. Kant aims to reveal the errors that plague each of these. ![]() Thus, in the Dialectic, Kant turns his attention to the central disciplines of traditional, rationalist, metaphysics rational psychology, rational cosmology, and rational theology. 'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics and to bring about a complete revolution' Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is thus as well known for what it rejects as for what it defends. ![]()
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