Basic Writings of Kant (Modern Library Classics)
Contributors: Allen W. Wood (Editor)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: July 10, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780375757334
First sentence: Our reason (Vernunft) has this peculiar fate that, with reference to one class of its knowledge, it is always troubled with questions which cannot be ignored, because they spring from the very nature of reason, and which cannot be answered, because they tr
Description: "The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the relationship between the human mind and all that it encounters and remain the most important influence on our concept of knowledge. As renowned Kant scholar Allen W.

Wood writes in his Introduction, Kant "virtually laid the foundation for the way people in the last two centuries have confronted such widely differing subjects as the experience of beauty and the meaning of human history.""--BOOK JACKET.