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The Critique of Pure Reason Volume 2

Author
Immanuel Kant
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
5 hours
ISBN
9781802562422
Published
7 January 2025
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • epistemology
  • metaphysics
  • rationalism
  • empiricism
  • phenomenology
  • transcendental idealism
  • knowledge limitations
  • human perception
  • categorical imperative
  • philosophical inquiry

Description

In this seminal text, Kant argues that human knowledge is limited to the phenomenal world, which is experienced through the senses and understood through the categories of space, time, and causality. He introduces the concept of the "transcendental aesthetic," which outlines the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience, and the "transcendental analytic," which analyzes the conditions under which objects can be known. Kant's critique of pure reason aims to demonstrate that there are limits to human knowledge, while also asserting the necessity and validity of reason in the acquisition of knowledge. This groundbreaking work laid the foundation for modern philosophy and has had a profound impact on subsequent philosophical thought.

Author

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.