Critique of Pure Reason: Unified Edition (with all variants from the 1781 and 1787 editions) (Hackett Classics)

Eighteenth century philosophy was in a crisis, the schism between rationalism and empiricism complicating the dispute over the status of religion and the threat of science. Committed equally to reason and experience, science and morality, Kant's aim was to place these concerns on a secure basis while limiting their claim to unqualified truth: the result is the Critique of Pure Reason (1781), a decisively influential and radically original work. Like Werner Pluhar's Distinguished Translation Of Critique Of Judgment (hackett Publishing Co., 1987), This New Rendering Of Critique Of Pure Reason Reflects The Elegant Achievement Of A Master Translator. This Richly Annotated Volume Offers Translations Of The Complete Texts Of Both The First (a) And Second (b) Editions, As Well As Kant's Own Notes. Extensive Editorial Notes By Werner Pluhar And James Ellington Supply Explanatory And Terminological Comments, Translations Of Latin And Other Foreign Expressions, Variant Readings, Cross-references To Other Passages In The Text And In Other Writings Of Kant, And References To Secondary Works. An Extensive Bibliography, Glossary, And Detailed Index Are Included. Patricia Kitcher's Illuminating Introduction Provides A Roadmap To Kant's Abstract And Complex Argumentation By Firmly Locating His View In The Context Of Eighteenth-century--and Current--attempts To Understand The Nature Of The Thinking Mind And Its Ability To Comprehend The Physical Universe. One of the central texts of western philosophy and an effort to connect Newtonian physics with the best of Continental rationalism and empiricism. Its writing was inspired by the skeptic David Hume waking Kant from his "dogmatic slumbers."