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Immanuel Kant

 


 

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Kant’s teaching produces a fundamental change so great that it may be regarded as an intellectual rebirth. … The mind undergoes a complete undeceiving, and forthwith looks at all things in another light… he who has not mastered the Kantian philosophy is in a state of innocence; in the grasp of that natural and childish realism in which we are all born, and which fits us for everything possible, with the single exception of philosophy.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I, Preface to the Second Ed, 1844

 

“Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.”

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the First Ed, A vii. 1781
 

 

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

 

Kant Biography

What Other Thinkers Have Said About Kant

Kant Glossary: Technical Vocabulary Made Plain

 

Critique of Pure Reason (1781,1787)

What does the title mean?

Background: Why Kant Had to Write the Critique

Background: Why Kant is the ‘central sun’ of modern philosophy

Map of the Critique

Background: The Two Editions: 1781 and 1787

Study I: Preface to the First Edition (A, 1781)

Study II: Preface to the Second Edition (B, 1787)

Study III: Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason

The Introduction as a whole: orientation / map

Section I: The Distinction Between Pure and Empirical Knowledge

Section II: We Are in Possession of Certain A Priori Cognitions

Section III: Philosophy Needs a Science of the Limits of Reason

The concluding movement into the Transcendental Aesthetic

Study IV: The Transcendental Aesthetic

The Transcendental Aesthetic as a whole: orientation / map

Opening orientation: Sensibility, intuition, matter, and form

Section I: Of Space: Preliminary Orientation

The Metaphysical Exposition of Space

The Transcendental Exposition of Space

Conclusions from the Exposition of Space

Section II: Of Time: Preliminary Orientation

The Metaphysical Exposition of Time

The Transcendental Exposition of Time

Conclusions from the Exposition of Time

General Remarks on the Transcendental Aesthetic

The final conclusions: Space and Time as Forms of Sensibility

Synthesis: What Kant Has Established About Space and Time

Transcendental Aesthetic: Vocabulary Consolidation

Transition from the Transcendental Aesthetic to the Transcendental Analytic

 

 

 

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