A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Classic Reprint) Book

THE Critique of Pure Reason is more obscure and difficult than even a metaphysical treatise has any right to be. The difficulties are not merely due to defects of exposition; they multiply rather than diminish upon detailed study; and, as I shall endeavour to show in this Commentary, are traceable to two main causes, the composite nature of the text, written at various dates throughout the period 1772-I780, and the conflicting tendencies of Kant's own thinking. The Commentary is both expository and critical and in exposition no less than in criticism I have sought to subordinate the treatment of textual questions and of minor issues to the systematic discussion of the central problems. Full use is made of the various selections from Kant's private papers that have appeared, at intervals, since the publication of his Lectures on Metaphysics in 1821. Their significance has not hitherto been generally recognised in English books upon Kant. Thcy seem to me to be Table of Contents INTRODUCTION; 1 TEXTUALKant's; Method of composing the Critique of Pure Reason XIX; II HISTORICAL-; 'Kant's Relation to Hume and to Leibni:r, xxv; Ill GENERALI; The Nature of the tl priori XXXlll; 2 Kant's Contribution to the Science of Logic ? XXXVl; Title; 110tto; 3 The Nature of Consciousness; 4 Phenomenalism, Kant's Substitute (or Subjectivism; 5 The Distinction between Human and Animal Intellir'; gence ; '6' The Nature and Conditions of Self-Consciousness; 7 Kant's threefold Distinction between Sensibility, U nderstanding,; and Reason; 8 The place of the Cn'Hque of Pure Reason m Kant's; Philosophical System; THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON 1; Dedication to Freiherr von Zed/ilz; PREFACE 1'0 THE FIRST EDITION; Comment on Preface; Dogmatism, Scepticism, Criticism; PREFACB TO THE SECOND EDITION; The COjJc1"11ican Hypothesis; I Headings not in Kant's Table of Contents are printed in italics,; xi; XXXIX; xlv; xlvii; 1; Iii; Iv; 4; 6; 8; 10;Read More