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The Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

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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.

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  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Causation
  • Reason
  • Philosophy, German

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Section II: Of Time

§ 1. Introductory

§ 2. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception.

§ 3. Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Space.

§ 4. Conclusions from the foregoing Conceptions.

§ 5. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception.

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  1. First Part — Transcendental ÆSthetic
  2. Section II: Of Time
  3. Second Part — Transcendental Logic
  4. Second Part — Transcendental Logic
  5. Section II Transcendental Deduction of the pure Conceptions of the: Understanding
  6. Chapter IV: The History of Pure Reason
  7. Introduction
  8. First Part. Transcendental ÆSthetic
  9. First Part. Transcendental ÆSthetic
  10. Section I: Of Space
  11. Section II: Of Time
  12. Second Part — Transcendental Logic
  13. Book I: Analytic of Conceptions. § 2
  14. Book I: Analytic of Conceptions. § 2
  15. Chapter I: Of the Transcendental Clue to the Discovery of all Pure: Conceptions of the Understanding
  16. Section I: Of the Logical Use of the Understanding in General § 4
  17. Section II: Of the Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgements: § 5
  18. Section III: Of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding, or: Categories § 6
  19. Section I: Of the Principles of a Transcendental Deduction in general §: 9
  20. Section II Transcendental Deduction of the pure Conceptions of the: Understanding
  21. Book II: Analytic of Principles
  22. Book II: Analytic of Principles
  23. Chapter I: Of the Schematism at of the Pure Conceptions of the: Understanding
  24. Chapter II: System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding
  25. Section I: Of the Supreme Principle of all Analytical Judgements
  26. Section II: Of the Supreme Principle of all Synthetical Judgements
  27. Section III: Systematic Representation of all Synthetical Principles of: the Pure Understanding
  28. Chapter III Of the Ground of the Division of all Objects into Phenomena: and Noumena
  29. Appendix
  30. Section I — Of Ideas in General
  31. Section II: Of Transcendental Ideas
  32. Section III: System of Transcendental Ideas
  33. Chapter I: Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason
  34. Chapter II: The Antinomy of Pure Reason
  35. Section I: System of Cosmological Ideas
  36. Section II: Antithetic of Pure Reason
  37. Section III: Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-contradictions
  38. Section IV: Of the necessity imposed upon Pure Reason of presenting a: Solution of its Transcendental Problems
  39. Section V: Sceptical Exposition of the Cosmological Problems presented: in the four Transcendental Ideas
  40. Section VI: Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of Pure: Cosmological Dialectic
  41. Section VII: Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem
  42. Section VIII: Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in relation to the: Cosmological Ideas
  43. Section IX: Of the Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason: with regard to the Cosmological Ideas
  44. Section I: Of the Ideal in General
  45. Section II: Of the Transcendental Ideal (Prototypon Trancendentale)
  46. Section III: Of the Arguments employed by Speculative Reason in Proof: of the Existence of a Supreme Being
  47. Section IV: Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the: Existence of God
  48. Section V: Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the: Existence of God
  49. Section VI: Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof
  50. Section VII: Critique of all Theology based upon Speculative Principles: of Reason
  51. Chapter I: The Discipline of Pure Reason
  52. Section I: The Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism
  53. Section II: The Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics
  54. Section III: The Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis
  55. Section IV: The Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs
  56. Chapter II: The Canon of Pure Reason
  57. Section I: Of the Ultimate End of the Pure Use of Reason
  58. Section II: Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of: the Ultimate End of Pure Reason
  59. Section III: Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief
  60. Chapter III: The Architectonic of Pure Reason
  61. Chapter IV: The History of Pure Reason

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