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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
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“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
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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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