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Kant's Critique of judgement
- 613 pages · about 10 hours
- First published 1781
- 153 editions
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1 About this book
The Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft; 1781; second edition 1787) is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in which he seeks to determine the limits and scope of metaphysics. Also referred to as Kant's "First Critique", it was followed by his Critique of Practical Reason (1788) and Critique of Judgment (1790).
In the preface to the first edition, Kant explains that by a "critique of pure reason" he means a critique "of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience" and that he aims to decide on "the possibility or impossibility of metaphysics".
Kant builds on the work of empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume, as well as rationalist philosophers such as René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff.
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Good for readers who want: philosophy, history, and a long read.
- Philosophy
- History
- Sociology of Knowledge
- Analysis
- Philosophy, modern
- Reason
- Causation
- Theory of Knowledge
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