Critique of Pure Reason

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It represents a profond 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 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 for beyond these alternatives. Marcus Weigelt's lucid re-working of Max Müller's classic translation male the Critique accessible to a new generation of readers. His informative introduction places the work in contains a bibliography and explanatory notes.