Critique of Pure Reason

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Critique of Pure Reason is Immanuel Kant’s foundational philosophical work that revolutionized modern thought by examining the limits and capacities of human reason.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses conflict between rationalism and empiricism
aimsTo critique metaphysics
determine the limits of human cognition
establish conditions of possibility of experience
author Immanuel Kant
centralThesis knowledge arises from the cooperation of sensibility and understanding
we can know appearances but not things in themselves
containsPart Transcendental Aesthetic
Transcendental Analytic
Transcendental Dialectic
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Prussia
dividedInto Transcendental Doctrine of Elements
Transcendental Doctrine of Method
followedBy Critique of Practical Reason
Critique of the Power of Judgment
hasEdition A edition
B edition
hasGenre philosophical treatise
hasSubject empiricism
rationalism
historicalSignificance revolutionized modern philosophy by proposing a Copernican revolution in metaphysics
influenced 20th-century epistemology
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German idealism
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
analytic philosophy
phenomenology
introducesConcept categories of the understanding
forms of intuition
ideas of pure reason
phenomena and noumena distinction
synthetic a priori judgments
thing in itself
transcendental apperception
transcendental idealism
language German
mainTopic epistemology
limits of human reason
metaphysics
possibility of metaphysics as a science
theory of knowledge
originalTitle Kritik der reinen Vernunft
partOf Kant's critical philosophy
philosophicalTradition German idealism
transcendental idealism
publicationYear 1781
revisedEditionYear 1787


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