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	Critique of Pure Reason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft), first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, is widely regarded as the most influential and widely read work of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant and one of the most influential and important in the entire history of Western philosophy.
		It is often referred to as Kant's "first critique", and was followed by the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment.
		Pure intuition contains the a priori forms under which objects of senses can be intuited—such as the space and time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason (2200 words)

	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
		Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is an examination of the sources of human knowledge, and of the relation of a priori knowledge to empirical knowledge.
		The antinomies of pure reason propose that, given the totality of conditions for a particular phenomenon, there is an absolute unity of the conditions for that phenomenon.
		Pure reason is a regulative principle, which acts to unify the empirical concepts of the understanding.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/purereason.html (2172 words)

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		Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose.
		For pure speculative reason has this peculiarity, that, in choosing the various objects of thought, it is able to define the limits of its own faculties, and even to give a complete enumeration of the possible modes of proposing problems to itself, and thus to sketch out the entire system of metaphysics.
		To the Critique of Pure Reason, therefore, belongs all that constitutes transcendental philosophy; and it is the complete idea of transcendental philosophy, but still not the science itself; because it only proceeds so far with the analysis as is necessary to the power of judging completely of our synthetical knowledge a priori.
	philosophy.eserver.org /kant/critique-of-pure-reason.txt (16139 words)

	Critique of Pure Reason (Prefaces and Introduction)
		It is a call to reason to undertake anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a tribunal which will assure to reason its lawful claims, and dismiss all groundless pretensions, not by despotic decrees, but in accordance with its own eternal and unalterable laws.
		Reason, holding in one hand its prin- ciples, according to which alone concordant appearances can be admitted as equivalent to laws, and in the other hand the experiment which it has devised in conformity with these prin- ciples, must approach nature in order to be taught by it.
		For human reason, without being moved merely by the idle desire for extent and variety of knowledge, proceeds impetuously, driven on by an inward need, to ques- tions such as cannot be answered by any empirical employ- ment of reason, or by principles thence derived.
	www.stanford.edu /class/history34q/readings/Kant/CritiquePreface.html (13811 words)

	Critique of Pure Reason
		For human reason, without being moved merely by the idle desire for extent and variety of knowledge, proceeds impetuously, driven on by an inward need, to questions such as cannot be answered by any empirical employment of reason, or by principles thence derived.
		When once reason has learnt completely to understand its own power in respect of objects which can be presented to it in experience, it should easily be able to determine, with completeness and certainty, the extent and the limits of its attempted employment beyond the bounds of all experience.
		An organon of pure reason would be the sum-total of those principles according to which all modes of pure a priori knowledge can be acquired and actually brought into being.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/kant.htm (5339 words)

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		But, lest anything he may have said may become the innocent cause of doubt in their minds, or tend to weaken the effect which his arguments might otherwise produce--he may be allowed to point out those passages which may occasion mistrust or difficulty, although these do not concern the main purpose of the present work.
		For by this new method we are enabled perfectly to explain the possibility of a priori cognition, and, what is more, to demonstrate satisfactorily the laws which lie a priori at the foundation of nature, as the sum of the objects of experience--neither of which was possible according to the procedure hitherto followed.
		In order to admit this, we have only to be convinced that there is an absolutely necessary use of pure reason--the moral use--in which it inevitably transcends the limits of sensibility, without the aid of speculation, requiring only to be insured against the effects of a speculation which would involve it in contradiction with itself.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext03/cprrn10.txt (15816 words)

	Critique of Pure Reason
		To attempt to extract from a purely arbitrary idea the existence of an object corresponding to it is a quite unnatural procedure and a mere innovation of scholastic subtlety.
		This natural procedure of reason was, however, concealed from view, and instead of ending with this concept, the attempt was made to begin with it, and so to deduce from it that necessity of existence which it was only fitted to supplement.
		And in all other kinds of reasoning from a given consequence to its ground this would be legitimate; but in the present case it unfortunately happens that the condition which is needed for absolute necessity is only to be found in one single being.
	www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/GrPhil/PhilRel/PureReason.htm (4097 words)

	Kant's Critique of Metaphysics
		Reason and the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic
		It is this general theory of reason, as a capacity to think (by means of “ideas”) beyond all standards of sense, and as carrying with it a unique and unavoidable demand for the unconditioned, that frames the Kantian rejection of metaphysics.
		Reason, that is, ceaselessly demands the ground of all the contingent beings in existence, and will not rest until it settles on the absolutely necessary being which grounds them.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/kant-metaphysics (10494 words)

	Critique of Pure Reason
		Nonetheless, looking at the Critique from the beginning of the 21st century, it is clear that Kant was too pessimistic about the possible scope of human knowledge.
		The underlying theme of the "Critique of Pure Reason" is that the borders of the world are as inaccessible as the receding horizon.
		Indeed, the will, when acting according to the dictates of reason, is unique in being the one place where the noumenal world is known to have objective effects in the world of phenomena.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/cpr.htm (2157 words)

	Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
		Whether the treatment of such knowledge as lies within the province of reason does or does not follow the secure path of a science, is easily to be determined from the outcome.
		My soul, viewed from the latter standpoint, cannot indeed be known by means of speculative reason (and still less through empirical observation); and freedom as a property of a being to which I attribute effects in the sensible world, is therefore also not knowable in such a fashion.
		Thus the critique of reason, in the end, necessarily leads to scientific knowledge; while its dogmatic employment, on the other hand, lands us in dogmatic assertions to which other assertions, equally specious, can always be opposed -- that is, in skepticism.
	www.wutsamada.com /alma/modern/kant1.htm (4252 words)

	20th WCP: Some Esential Points in Reading The Critique of Pure Reason
		It is also possible to demonstrate that Kant is thinking in these things in the inference from his theory, that all that is apprehended by the senses, is perceived and consequently known and this perception assures me the effective (wirklich) presence of the object of the external sense.
		In this way Kant reaches his aim of the necessity of assuring the certainty and confiability of experience — leaving aside the relativity of this affirmation — with the exclusion of everything implying the minor risk that his system may be considered as an atheism.
		(1a) Critique Of Pure Reason is abbreviated CRITIQUE
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Mode/ModeShor.htm (4490 words)

	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Translation by Norman Kemp Smith)
		Pure Reason as the Seat of Transcendental Illusion [300] A.
		Critique of all Theology based upon Speculative Principles of Reason [525] Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic [532] The Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason [532] The Final Purpose of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason [549]
		The Discipline of Pure Reason in respect of its Polemical Employment [593] Impossibility of a Sceptical Satisfaction of the Pure Reason that is in Conflict with itself [605] Section 3.
	humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk /Philosophy/Kant/cpr/cpr-open.html (1292 words)

	The Critique of Pure Reason
		CHAPTER I. Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason.
		Of the Arguments employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being.
		SECTION I. The Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /k/kant/immanuel/k16p (706 words)

	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
		Kant says that although reason begins with experience, we can call upon transcendental reason - reason which is in and of the mind, but which applies to that outside the mind.
		Lectures on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1781) Excellent summary by Robert Cavalier, Chair of Carnegie Mellon University Philosophy Department.
		Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Course Outline University of Bristol.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/kantcpr01.htm (547 words)

	Modern History Sourceboook: Kant: Critique of Pure Reason 1781
		Excepts from The Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 [B edition]
		Knowledge a priori is either pure or impure.
		A great part, p haps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/kant-cpr.html (1657 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Critique of Pure Reason: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" is both one of the most rewarding of all philosophical works and one of the most difficult.
		In this volume, the text followed is that of the second edition of 1787, and a translation is also given of all first edition passages which in the second edition have been either altered or omitted.
		He developed the idea of a priori knowledge (that coming from pure reasoning) and a posterior knowledge (that coming from experience) and put them together into synthetic a priori statements as being possible.
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	Amazon.com: Critique of Pure Reason: Books: Immanuel Kant,Werner S. Pluhar,Patricia Kitcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Human reason has a peculiar fate in one kind of its cognitions: it is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, because they are posed to it by the nature of reason itself, but that it also cannot answer, because they surpass human reason's every ability.
		Critique of Judgment, Norman Kemp Smith, Heinz Heimsoeth, Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, Critique of Practical Reason, Karl Ameriks, Analytic of Principles, David Hume, Gerd Buchdahl, New York, Hans Vaihinger, Kants Kritik, The Antinomy of Pure Reason Section, Clarendon Press, Also Gottfried Martin, Concluding Comment, Immanuel Kant, New Haven, Yale University Press
		This Critique is long, difficult, and dry; however, at the same time it is brilliant.
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	Amazon.ca: Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl, and Kierkegaard, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason and the other on the Critique of Practical Reason.
		Adorno¡¦s reading weaves immanently between positivism, idealism, Neo-Kantianism, phenomenology and ontology to present Kant in a unique manner that is particularly interesting to the postmodern debate.
		Adorno, who holds to modernity and the notion of reason in Kant (linked to a dynamic use of Hegelian dialectics), brings Kant back into the debate on reason for contemporary understanding.
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	Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
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		Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
		I do not mean by this a criticism of books and systems, but a critical inquiry into the faculty of reason, with reference to the cognitions to which it strives to attain without the aid of
	www.4literature.net /Immanuel_Kant/Critique_of_Pure_Reason (852 words)

	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I first sat down to read Kant's Critique in March of 1994, and after about 60 pages, I realized that I was in way over my head.
		It probably goes without saying that the entire work made quite an impression on me. What follows is a summary or outline, not an analysis, of the First Critique, although I did allow an occasional personal comment to slip in.
		The outline follows the Kemp Smith translation originally published in 1929 and the page numbers follow my personal copy (which makes them pretty useless since you can't borrow it) from the St. Martin's Press edition first published in 1965.
	www.bright.net /~jclarke (306 words)

	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Translation by Norman Kemp Smith)
		The e-text version of this book was originally prepared by Stephen Palmquist and placed in the Oxford Text Archive in 1985.
		This Kant's Critique of Pure Reason archive has been visited
		Page set up by Tze-wan Kwan and Chong-fuk Lau, Programme for Humanities Computing and Methodology, Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
	humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk /Philosophy/Kant/cpr (1155 words)

	Amazon.ca: Critique of Pure Reason: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding and difficult of all philosophical works.
		Norman Kemp Smith's translation is immensely valuable, not simply because he rendered Kant's language into readable English, but also because his own extensive understanding of the Critique made him acutely aware of the pitfalls of translation.
		As Kant writes at the end of the text, 'The critical path alone is still open.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1403911959 (770 words)

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