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Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant)

Pages
710
Published
1781
Language
English

Synopsis

Immanuel Kant's foundational work of modern philosophy explores the very limits of what we can know. He asks a fundamental question: what can reason know without the help of experience? The book investigates the structure of the human mind itself to determine how we understand reality, causation, and the world around us. This is a challenging but essential text that reshaped Western thought.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment beginning with thinkers John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. Kant created a new perspective in philosophy which had widespread influences on philosophy continuing through to the 21st century. He published important works on epistemology, as well as works relevant t...