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Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

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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.

...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!

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.