Kritik der reinen Vernunft
By: mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen hrsg. von Erich Adickes.
Contributors: Adickes, Erich, 1866-1928.
Publisher: Mayer & Müller
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 723
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Causation; Reason
Other titles: Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
Description: Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason) by Immanuel Kant (1781/1787) is a foundational work in modern philosophy that investigates the limits and scope of human knowledge. Kant asks how synthetic a priori knowledge—truths that are both universally valid and informative—are possible. He distinguishes between phenomena (things as they appear to us, shaped by the structures of our mind such as space, time, and the categories of understanding) and noumena (things in themselves, which remain unknowable). The work develops “transcendental idealism,” arguing that reason structures experience rather than passively receiving it. Kant also critiques traditional metaphysics, showing that attempts to apply pure reason beyond possible experience (e.g., to the soul, the universe as a whole, or God) inevitably lead to contradictions, or “antinomies.”