Critique of Pure Reason

Author: Kant, Immanuel, Weigelt, Marcus

Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Published on 29 November 2007 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophyIn his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique of Pure Reason brings together two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.

Translated, Edited and with an Introduction by Marcus Weigelt Based on the Translation by Max Muller