The Critique of Pure Reason
RM 4.99
ISBN:
6610000020119
Categories:
General Academics
File Size
1.49 MB
Format
epub
Language
English
Release Year
2017
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Immanuel KantSynopsis
The Critique is an investigation into the foundations and limits of human knowledge, and the extent to which the human mind is able to engage in metaphysics. Kant builds on the work of empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume, as well as rationalists such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff. He expounds new ideas on the nature of space and time, and claims to provide solutions to Humes scepticism regarding human knowledge of the relation of cause and effect, and René Descartes scepticism regarding knowledge of the external world. Kant claims to enact a Copernican revolution in philosophy with his doctrine of transcendental idealism, according to which our knowledge does not conform to objects, but rather objects conform to our knowledge. According to Kants doctrine, the human mind shapes and structures the world of experience, making knowledge possible.