The Critique of Pure Reason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kant, Immanuel.

Contributor:

Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow), 1836-1902.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Reason.

Local Subjects:

Causation.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (935 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques. In it he takes up Hume's argument that cause and effect cannot be experienced by the senses. Hume argued that we experience events one after the other, but not that one event is caused by the preceding event. Kant argues that synthetic, rather than analytic thinking is needed, and addresses the problem of thinking synthetically without relying on the empirical...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Preface to the First Edition, 1781; Preface to the Second Edition, 1787; Introduction; I TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS; First Part Transcendental Aesthetic; Second Part Transcendental Logic; Transcendental Logic First Division; Book I; Book II; Transcendental Logic Second Division; Book I Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason; Book II Of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason; II TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF METHOD; Endnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77556-622-6

OCLC:

476235971