The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (2014, Trade Paperback)

Description: Immanuel Kant is considered one of the giants of philosophy of his age or any other. It is largely this book that provides the foundation of this assessment. Kant was a professor of philosophy in the German city of Konigsberg, where he spent his entire life and career. Kant had a very organized and clockwork life - his habits were so regular that it was considered that the people of Konigsberg could set their clocks by his walks. The same regularity was part of his publication history, until 1770, when Kant had a ten-year hiatus in publishing. This was largely because he was working on this book, the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant as a professor of philosophy was familiar with the rationalists, such as Descartes, who founded the Enlightenment and in many ways started the phenomenon of modern philosophy. He was also familiar with the Empiricist school (John Locke and David Hume are perhaps the best known names in this). which challenged the rationalist framework. Between Leibniz' monads and Hume's development of Empiricism to its logical and self-destructive conclusion, coupled with the Romantic ideals typified by Rousseau, the philosophical ediface of the Enlightenment seemed about to topple. Kant rode to the rescue, so to speak. He developed an idea that was a synthesis of empirical and rationalist ideas. He developed the idea of a priori knowledge that coming fom pure reasoning and posterior knowledge that coming from experience and put them together into synthetic a priori statements as being possible . . . (copied from back cover)

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