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Critique of Pure Reason

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The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age.

Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason as an attempt to bridge the gap between rationalism (there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience) and empiricism (sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge) and, in particular, to counter the radical empiricism of David Hume (our beliefs are purely the result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences). Using the methods of science, Kant demonstrates that though each mind may, indeed, create its own universe, those universes are guided by certain common laws, which are rationally discernible. (Summary by Ticktockman)

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Critique of Pure Reason

Chapters

Preface to the First Edition, 1781

Preface to the Second Edition, 1787

Introduction

Transcendental Doctrine of Elements--Space

Transcendental Doctrine of Elements--Time

Transcendental Logic

Transcendental Analytic

Deduction of the Pure Conceptions

Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Conceptions

Application of the Categories to Objects of the Senses

Analytic of Principles/Schematism

System of All Principles of the Pure Understanding

Systematic Representation of All Synthetical Principles/1st Analogy

Second Analogy

Third Analogy

The Postulates of Empirical Thought

Division of All Objects into Phenomena and Noumena

Of the Equivocal Nature of Amphiboly

Remark on the Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflections

Transcendental Dialectic: Introduction

Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason

Of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason

Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason

The Antinomy of Pure Reason

Antithetic of Pure Reason/1st &amp; 2nd Conflicts

3rd &amp; 4th Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas

Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-Contradictions

Of the Necessity Imposed upon Pure Reason of Presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems

Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem

Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason with regard to the Cosmological Ideas

Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Deduction of Cosmical Events from their Causes

Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Dependence of Phenomenal Existences

The Ideal of Pure Reason

Of the Arguments Employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being

Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God

Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof

Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason

Of the Ultimate End of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason

Transcendental Doctrine of Method

Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism

Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics

Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis

Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs

The Canon of Pure Reason

Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason

Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief

The Architectonic of Pure Reason

The History of Pure Reason

Antithetic of Pure Reason/1st & 2nd Conflicts

3rd & 4th Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas