Offers a framework upon which the whole of modern philosophy is based. This book presents an investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and illusions. It brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces our knowledge to experience.
Omschrijving
Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophy
In 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
Productspecificaties
- Auteur: Immanuel Kant
- Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Taal: English
- Bindwijze: B-format paperback
- Verschijningsdatum: 2007-11-29
- Aantal pagina's: 784
- ISBN: 9780140447477
- Thema: Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
- BISAC: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General
Over de auteur
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. His comprehensive and profound thinking on aesthetics, ethics and knowledge has had an immense impact on all subsequent philosophy.
Marcus Weigelt's lucid reworking of Max Muller's classic translation makes the critique accessible to a new generation of readers, while his informative introduction places the work in context and elucidates Kant's main arguments.