Critique of Pure Reason
Kant's foundational work of transcendental philosophy examines the nature and limits of human knowledge. Through critical analysis of pure reason, it establishes that knowledge requires both sensible intuition and conceptual understanding, ultimately demonstrating that metaphysical claims about things-in-themselves exceed possible experience.
Divisions
- Preface to the First Edition (1781)0 / 38
Kant introduces the critical investigation of pure reason and explains reason's natural conflicts when it transcends experience.
- Preface to the Second Edition (1787)0 / 62
Kant presents his Copernican revolution in philosophy, proposing objects conform to our knowledge rather than conversely.
- Introduction0 / 67
Kant distinguishes pure from empirical knowledge, outlines the central problem of synthetic a priori judgments.
- Transcendental Doctrine of Elements0 / 60
Establishes the a priori conditions of knowledge through transcendental aesthetic and transcendental logic.
- Transcendental Doctrine of Method0 / 101
Examines the proper discipline, canon, architectonic structure, and history of pure reason.