The Critique of Pure Reason

Publisher Marketing: With "The Critique of Pure Reason" Kant laid a new foundation for speculative thought in the western world. He inquired into the nature of reason. He vindicated the reasonableness of some truths which men had indeed felt to be indefeasibly true, but which they had not been able to establish by reasoning. Kant sought to make a clear separation between the provinces of belief and knowledge. In his view, this is the essence of a critical philosophy. It distinguishes between the perception of that which is in accordance with natural law and the understanding of the moral meaning of things. He had said that the primary condition, fundamental not merely to knowledge, but to all connected experience, is the knowing, experiencing, thinking, acting self. It is that which says 'I, ' the ego, the permanent subject. But that is not enough. The knowing self demands in turn a knowable world. It must have something outside of itself to which it yet stands related, the object of knowledge. Knowledge is the combination of those two, the result of their cooperation. Kant proposed that we may indeed say that we know an object of belief. Yet we must make clear to ourselves that we know it in a different sense from that in which we know physical fact. Faith, since it does not spring from the pure reason, cannot be demonstrated by the reason. Equally it cannot, as skepticism has declared, be overthrown by the pure reason. Cover photography by Paul Spremulli. Review Citations: Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 77 (EAN 9780140447477, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 91 (EAN 9780140447477, Paperback) Library Journal 03/01/2004 pg. 113 (EAN 9780486432540, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 65 (EAN 9780879755966, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 65 (EAN 9780521657297, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 65 (EAN 9780460873581, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 65 (EAN 9780312450106, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Kant, Immanuel Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was born in Konigsberg, Prussia, where he remained his entire life. His others works include Critique of Pure Reason and Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone. Contributor Bio:  Meiklejohn, J M D In 1854 at the age of twenty-four, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn translated Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" into English and it would remain the standard translation for many years. However, it was in another area of Victorian writing that Meiklejohn's name would become celebrated. He wrote and published the most comprehensive set of schoolbooks, lesson materials and instructional texts for schoolmasters yet seen in an English-speaking classroom. Foremost and longest lasting among those books was The English Language: its Grammar, History and Literature, (1886), which reached over thirty editions in Britain, the U. S. A. and the British Commonwealth. This revised edition marks the 125th anniversary of its first publication by Blackwood and Sons in London.