Critique of Pure Reason

Name: Critique of Pure Reason
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ISBN: 9780140447477

By: Immanuel Kant

Penguin Random House / 2008 / Paperback

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Immanuel Kant, who became a skeptic after encountering David Hume's aversion to miracles, turned his metaphysical guns on the concept of 'Reason'. Kant propounded the theory that, although certain concepts inherent in Reason precede and facilitate experience, these concepts are not sufficient for proofs concerning conclusions about the natural world. Pulling together the disparate strains of rationalism and empiricism to forge his transcendental idealism, Kant recast much of the existing theories of how reason and experience are interrelated.

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Title: Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 784
Vendor: Penguin Random House
Publication Date: 2008

Dimensions: 5.00 X 7.00 X 1.00 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 3 ounces
ISBN: 0140447474
ISBN-13: 9780140447477
Stock No: WW447477

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The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy

A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Published here in a lucid reworking of Max Müller's classic translation, the Critique is a profound investigation into the nature of human reason, establishing its truth, falsities, illusions, and reality.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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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. Marcus Weigelt's lucid reworking of Max Müller's classic translation makes the critique accessible to a new generation of readers, while his informative introduction places the work in context and elucidates Kant's main arguments.