Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new translation of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments, and in which Kant himself explains his special terminology. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction, explanatory notes, a chronology and a guide to further reading.
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'Hatfield's translation is new ... [He] handles very carefully central concepts of the Kantian text that are difficult to translate ... It can be highly recommended especially for university courses.' Konstantin Pollok, University of Marburg, Kant-Studien
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Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. His comprehensive and profound thinking on aesthetics, ethics, and knowledge has had an immense impact on all subsequent philosophy.
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If the Critique scares the bejeezus out of you...,
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This review is from: Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) (Paperback)
For the serious student of Philosophy this work should just serve as a bridge into the justifiably intimidating Critique of Pure Reason. That being said,For those who are gunshy about the first critique, this book is an extremely good introduction to Kant's Metaphysics. It does not give the depth of full critique but gives you the general thrust of the direction that he is going in his Philosophical activity and introduces the concepts that were essential to the critique. (the transcendental ego of apperception, the antinomies of reason, etc.) In this smaller production Kant is much less intimidating. His style is still fairly circuitous, and he is virtually incapable of sussinctly summarizing himself, but take it for what you will. also, I'm not sure what the guy beneath me is talking about. I'm really not. But it should be noted that Kant's variety of idealism should be called critical idealism rather than subjective idealism. The latter is misleading and fails to make the distinction between Kant's philosophy and that of Berkley or Descartes.
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The "Critique of Pure Reason" ...refined and clarified!!,
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This review is from: Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) (Paperback)
...Kant himself wrote this to clarify the excruciatingly convoluted paragraphs of the agonizing "Critique". This is Kant's groundbreaking Transcendental Idealism written in his own words as clearly and concisely as possible! to all you philosophy enthusiasts...ENJOY!
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.,
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This review is from: Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) (Paperback)
The Antinomies are too complex and mysterious to the instrument of Reason: this is why one should be so enthusiastic to end It [i.e. the Reason] through Aleister Crowley's " Liber OS ABYSMI vel DAATH," which will cause a replacement of It with Ultimately Higher Faculties. The Reason has been proved to be so droolingly absurd by Kant in his boring literary form. He needs an upgrade via activation of the Poetical Faculties -- I am not here speaking of the former paragraph's identity of expression. His style is so sublimely shown to be in an opposed functioning with most other philosophical books. An excellent method to become a Subjective Idealist is propounded here in this treatise.
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These prolegomena are not for the use of apprentices, but of future teachers, and indeed are not to help them to organize the presentation of an already existing science, but to discover this science itself for the first time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main transcendental question, metaphysical cognition, synthetic cognition, priori cognition, pure natural science, sensory intuition, transcendent use, metaphysical judgments, philosophical cognition, pure concepts, empirical intuition, mathematical cognition, intelligible beings, analytic judgments, outer intuition, pure cognition, transcendental ideas, synthetic judgments, synthetic propositions, sensible world, sheer illusion, apodictic certainty, pure understanding, speculative reason, transcendental logic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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These prolegomena are not for the use of apprentices, but of future teachers, and indeed are not to help them to organize the presentation of an already existing science, but to discover this science itself for the first time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main transcendental question, metaphysical cognition, synthetic cognition, priori cognition, pure natural science, sensory intuition, transcendent use, metaphysical judgments, philosophical cognition, pure concepts, empirical intuition, mathematical cognition, intelligible beings, analytic judgments, outer intuition, pure cognition, transcendental ideas, synthetic judgments, synthetic propositions, sensible world, sheer illusion, apodictic certainty, pure understanding, speculative reason, transcendental logic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 16 pages
- Prolegomena: To Any Future Metaphysics That Can Qualify as a Science (Open Court Classics) by Immanuel Kant on 5 pages
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant on 5 pages
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: 2 Vols. in 1 (Great Books in Philosophy) by John Locke in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 7
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
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