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

This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple and direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays an unprecedented philosophical and textual sophistication that will enlighten Kant scholars as well. This translation recreates as far as possible a text with the same interpretative nuances and richness as the original. The extensive editorial apparatus includes informative annotation, detailed glossaries, an index, and a large-scale general introduction in which two of the world's preeminent Kant scholars provide both a succinct summary of the structure and argument of the Critique and a detailed account of its long and complex genesis. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant Copyright Contents General editors' preface Acknowledgments Introduction ●Paul Guyer & Allen W. Wood I. The Argument of the Critique II. The Message of the Critique III. The Evolution of the Critique IV. The Genesis of the Critique V. The Changes in the Second Edition Note on translation Bibliography Critique of Pure Reason Table of Contents Motto (added in the second edition) Dedication Preface (to the first edition) Preface to the second edition Table of Contents (as in the first edition) Introduction (as in the first edition) I. The idea of transcendental philosophy On the difference between analytic and synthetic judgments II. Division of transcendental philosophy Introduction (as in the second edition) I. On the difference between pure and empirical cognition II. We are in possession of certain a priori cognitions, and even the common understanding is not without them III. Philosophy needs a science that determines the possibility, the principles, and the domain of all cognitions a priori IV. On the difference between analytic and synthetic judgments V. Synthetic a priori judgments are contained as principles in all theoretical sciences of reason VI. The general problem* of pure reason VII. The idea and division of a special science under the name of a critique of pure reason I - Transcendental doctrine of elements First Part. Transcendental aesthetic (as in the first edition) First section. On space Second section. On time First Part. Transcendental aesthetic (as in the second edition) First section. On space Second section. On time Second Part. Transcendental logic I. On logic in general II. On transcendental logic III. On the division of general logic into analytic and dialectic IV. On the division of transcendental logic into the transcendental analytic and dialectic Division one. Transcendental analytic Book I - Analytic of concepts Chapter I - On the clue to the discovery of all pure concepts of the understanding First section. On the logical use of the understanding in general Second section. On the logical function of the understanding in judgments Chapter II - On the deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding First section. On the principles of a transcendental deduction in general Second section. On the a priori grounds for the possibility of experience (as in the first edition) Third section. On the relation"7 of the understanding to objects in general and the possibility of cognizing these a priori (as in the first edition) Second Section. Transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding (as in the second edition) Book II - Analytic of principles Introduction. On the transcendental power of judgment in general Chapter I - On the schematism of pure concepts of the understanding Chapter II - System of all principles of pure understanding Section I. On the supreme principle of all analytic judgments Section II. On the supreme principle of all synthetic judgments Section III. Systematic representation of all synthetic principles of pure understanding 1. Axioms of intuition 2. Anticipations of perception 3. Analogies of experience A. First analogy: principle of persistence of substance B. Second analogy: principle of temporal succession according to the law of causality C. Third analogy: principle of simultaneity according to the law of reciprocity or community 4. The postulates of empirical thought in general Refutation of idealism (added in the second edition) General note on the system of principles (added in the second edition) Chapter III - On the ground of the distinction of all objects in general into phenomena and noumena (as in the first edition) Chapter III - On the ground of the distinction of all objects in general into phenomena and noumena (as in the second edition) Appendix: On the amphiboly of concepts of reflection Remark to the amphiboly of concepts of reflection Division two. Transcendental dialectic Introduction I. Transcendental illusion II. On pure reason as the seat of transcendental illusion A. On reason in general B. On the logical use of reason C. On the pure use of reason Book I - On the concepts of pure reason Section I. On the ideas in general Section II. On the transcendental ideas Section III. The system of transcendental ideas Book II - The dialectical inferences of pure reason Chapter I - The paralogisms of pure reason (as in the first edition) First paralogism of substantiality Second paralogism of simplicity Third paralogism of personality Fourth paralogism of ideality Observation on the sum of the pure doctrine of the soul Chapter I - The paralogisms of pure reason (as in the second edition) Refutation of Mendelssohn's proof of the persistence of the soul General remark concerning the transition from rational psychology to cosmology Chapter II - The antinomy of pure reason Section I. The system of cosmological ideas Section II. The antithetic of pure reason First conflict Second conflict Third conflict Fourth conflict Section III. On the interest of reason in these conflicts Section IV On the transcendental problems of pure reason, insofar as they absolutely must be capable of a solution Section V. Skeptical representation of the cosmological questions raised by all four transcendental ideas Section VI. Transcendental idealism as the key to solving the cosmological dialectic Section VII. Critical decision of the cosmological conflict of reason with itself Section VIII. The regulative principle of pure reason in regard to the cosmological ideas Section IX. The empirical use of the regulative principle of reason in regard to the cosmological ideas I. Resolution of the cosmological idea of the totality of the composition of the appearances of a world-whole II. Resolution of the cosmological idea of the totality of division of a given whole in intuition. Concluding remark on the resolution of the mathematical-transcendental ideas, and preamble to the resolution of the dynamic-transcendental ideas III. Resolution of the cosmological idea of the totality of the derivation of occurrences in the world from their causes The possibility of causality through freedom Clarification of the cosmological idea of freedom IV. Solution of the cosmological idea of the totality of dependence of appearances regarding their existence in general Concluding remark to the entire antinomy of pure reason Chapter III - The ideal of pure reason Section I. The ideal in general Section II. The transcendental ideal (prototypon transcendentale) Section III. The grounds of proof of speculative reason inferring the existence of a highest being Section IV. On the impossibility of an ontological proof of God's existence Section V. On the impossibility of a cosmological proof of God's existence Discovery and explanation of the dialectical illusion in all transcendental proofs of the existence of a necessary being Section VI. On the impossibility of the physicotheological proof Section VII. Critique of all theology from principles of reason Appendix to the transcendental dialectic On the regulative use of the ideas of pure reason On the final aim of the natural dialectic of human reason II - Transcendental doctrine of method Chapter I - The discipline of pure reason Section I. The discipline of pure reason in dogmatic use Section II. The discipline of pure reason with regard to its polemical use On the impossibility of a skeptical satisfaction of pure reason that is divided against itself Section III. The discipline of pure reason with regard to hypotheses Section IV. The discipline of pure reason with regard to its proofs Chapter II - The canon of pure reason Section I. On the ultimate end of the pure use of our reason Section II. On the ideal of the highest good Section III. On having an opinion, knowing, and believing Chapter III - The architectonic of pure reason Chapter IV - The history of pure reason Editorial Notes Glossary Index 'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics and to bring about a complete revolution' Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, 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 brings together the 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. ''The most accurate and informative English translation of Kant's most important philosophical work in both the 1781 and 1787 editions; faithful rendering of Kant's terminology, syntax, and sentence structure; a simple and direct style suitable for readers at all levels; distinct versions of all those portions of the work substantially revised by Kant for the 1787 edition; all Kant's handwritten emendations and marginal notes from his own personal copy reproduced for the first time in any edition, German or English; a large-scale introduction providing a summary of the structure and arguments of the Critique as well as the most informative account available in English of its long and complex genesis; and an extensive editorial apparatus including informative annotation and glossaries.''-- Site de l'éditeur "The most accurate and informative English translation of Kant's most important philosophical work in both the 1781 and 1787 editions; faithful rendering of Kant's terminology, syntax, and sentence structure; a simple and direct style suitable for readers at all levels; distinct versions of all those portions of the work substantially revised by Kant for the 1787 edition; all Kant's handwritten emendations and marginal notes from his own personal copy reproduced for the first time in any edition, German or English; a large-scale introduction providing a summary of the structure and arguments of the Critique as well as the most informative account available in English of its long and complex genesis; and an extensive editorial apparatus including informative annotation and glossaries."--BOOK JACKET. This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Its simple, direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, however the translation displays a sophistication that will enlighten Kant scholars as well. 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." Immanuel Kant ; Translated And Edited By Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 77-80) And Index.