The Critique of Pure Reason Contributor(s): Kant, Immanuel (Author), Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1950330184 ISBN-13: 9781950330188 Publisher: Classic Wisdom Reprint OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable - Philosophy | Logic - Philosophy | Epistemology |
Dewey: 121 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 8.5" W x 11" (2.03 lbs) 274 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Germany |
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Publisher Description: Kant builds on the work of empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume, as well as rationalists such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff. He expounds new ideas on the nature of space and time, and tries to provide solutions to Hume's scepticism regarding human knowledge of the relation of cause and effect, and Ren Descartes' scepticism regarding knowledge of the external world. This is argued through the transcendental idealism of objects (as appearance) and their form of appearance. Kant regards the former "as mere representations and not as things in themselves", and the latter as "only sensible forms of our intuition, but not determinations given for themselves or conditions of objects as things in themselves". This grants the possibility of a priori knowledge, since objects as appearance "must conform to our cognition . . . which is to establish something about objects before they are given to us". Knowledge independent of experience Kant calls "a priori" knowledge, while knowledge obtained through experience is termed "a posteriori". |