Critique of Pure Reason
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Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
796
Language
English
Published
1896

Overview

Critique of Pure Reason is Immanuel Kant's central work on knowledge, experience, reason, and the limits of metaphysics. Kant asks how synthetic a priori knowledge is possible and argues that the mind actively structures experience through forms and categories. The book confronts questions about space, time, causality, selfhood, and the boundary between what can be known and what reason only seeks.

It is difficult because it rebuilds philosophy's starting point. Critique of Pure Reason remains essential for readers interested in epistemology, metaphysics, modern philosophy, skepticism, and the conditions of human understanding. Its influence is enormous, shaping debates about science, freedom, God, and the reach of rational inquiry in modern thought, criticism, method, and knowledge itself.

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