The Critique of Pure Reason

Name: The Critique of Pure Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
ISBN: 9781911495680

Author: Immanuel Kant
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 536 pages
ISBN: 9781911495680
Published: 2 August 2016
Imprint: Adelphi Press

epistemology
metaphysics
rationalism
empiricism
phenomenology
transcendental idealism
knowledge limitations
human perception
categorical imperative
philosophical inquiry

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Immanuel Kant's 'The Critique of Pure Reason' stands as a monumental work in the history of philosophy, challenging the very roots of human understanding. Through meticulous analysis, Kant embarks on a profound inquiry into the faculties of human reason, distinguishing between what we can empirically perceive and the limitations of our knowledge. This seminal text navigates the complex interplay between experience and concepts, ultimately seeking to reconcile the realms of empirical observation and rational thought. An intellectual odyssey that reshapes how we conceive reality.

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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) gave modern thought its most influential architecture of reason. A central figure of the Enlightenment, he asked how knowledge is possible, how freedom is compatible with a lawful world, and how morality can be grounded without dogma. His answer reshaped epistemology and ethics for generations: we do not merely receive the world — we structure it; and we are bound by principles we can will as universal.

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