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The Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant

The Critique of Pure Reason

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Original author: Immanuel Kant

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"The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant is a philosophical work published in 1781. Kant investigates the limits and scope of metaphysics, asking how we can know anything before experiencing it. He challenges both rationalist and empiricist traditions, introducing revolutionary ideas about space, time, and knowledge. The central question driving the work is: "How are synthetic a priori judgments possible?" Kant argues this matter is crucial to the survival of human reason itself.

The Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #4280.

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59 Chapters

  1. 1.Section II: Transcendental Deduction of the pure Conceptions of the652 words
  2. 2.Preface: To the First Edition 17812,867 words
  3. 3.Preface: To the Second Edition 1787 (1)8,881 words
  4. 4.Preface: To the Second Edition 1787 (2)6,814 words
  5. 5.Section I: Of Space1,962 words
  6. 6.Section II: Of Time6,358 words
  7. 7.Introduction: Idea of a Transcendental Logic3,424 words
  8. 8.Book I: Analytic of Conceptions. § 2154 words
  9. 9.Chapter I: Of the Transcendental Clue to the Discovery of all Pure236 words
  10. 10.Section I: Of the Logical Use of the Understanding in General § 4463 words
  11. 11.Section II: Of the Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgements1,445 words
  12. 12.Section III: Of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding, or2,956 words
  13. 13.Section I: Of the Principles of a Transcendental Deduction in general §2,911 words
  14. 14.Section II: Transcendental Deduction of the pure Conceptions of the9,015 words
  15. 15.Book II: Analytic of Principles363 words
  16. 16.Introduction: Of the Transcendental Faculty of judgement in General949 words
  17. 17.Chapter I: Of the Schematism at of the Pure Conceptions of the2,477 words
  18. 18.Chapter II: System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding448 words
  19. 19.Section I: Of the Supreme Principle of all Analytical Judgements757 words
  20. 20.Section II: Of the Supreme Principle of all Synthetical Judgements991 words
  21. 21.Section III: Systematic Representation of all Synthetical Principles of (1)8,446 words
  22. 22.Section III: Systematic Representation of all Synthetical Principles of (2)8,941 words
  23. 23.Section III: Systematic Representation of all Synthetical Principles of (3)4,990 words
  24. 24.Chapter III: Of the Ground of the Division of all Objects into Phenomena4,686 words
  25. 25.Appendix11,475 words
  26. 26.Section I: Of Ideas in General2,072 words
  27. 27.Section II: Of Transcendental Ideas2,726 words
  28. 28.Section III: System of Transcendental Ideas1,837 words
  29. 29.Chapter I: Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason7,201 words
  30. 30.Chapter II: The Antinomy of Pure Reason592 words
  1. 31.Section I: System of Cosmological Ideas2,638 words
  2. 32.Section II: Antithetic of Pure Reason8,504 words
  3. 33.Section III: Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-contradictions3,202 words
  4. 34.Section IV: Of the necessity imposed upon Pure Reason of presenting a2,000 words
  5. 35.Section V: Sceptical Exposition of the Cosmological Problems presented1,247 words
  6. 36.Section VI: Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of Pure1,374 words
  7. 37.Section VII: Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem2,354 words
  8. 38.Section VIII: Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in relation to the1,668 words
  9. 39.Section IX: Of the Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason11,323 words
  10. 40.Section I: Of the Ideal in General791 words
  11. 41.Section II: Of the Transcendental Ideal (Prototypon Trancendentale)2,697 words
  12. 42.Section III: Of the Arguments employed by Speculative Reason in Proof1,824 words
  13. 43.Section IV: Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the2,458 words
  14. 44.Section V: Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the3,952 words
  15. 45.Section VI: Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof2,400 words
  16. 46.Section VII: Critique of all Theology based upon Speculative Principles2,479 words
  17. 47.Appendix: Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason (1)8,771 words
  18. 48.Appendix: Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason (2)6,161 words
  19. 49.Chapter I: The Discipline of Pure Reason861 words
  20. 50.Section I: The Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism6,032 words
  21. 51.Section II: The Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics7,170 words
  22. 52.Section III: The Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis2,924 words
  23. 53.Section IV: The Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs2,890 words
  24. 54.Chapter II: The Canon of Pure Reason484 words
  25. 55.Section I: Of the Ultimate End of the Pure Use of Reason1,519 words
  26. 56.Section II: Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of3,673 words
  27. 57.Section III: Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief2,731 words
  28. 58.Chapter III: The Architectonic of Pure Reason4,581 words
  29. 59.Chapter IV: The History of Pure Reason1,037 words