Critique of Pure Reason (World Philosophers and Their Works)
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- Author: Immanuel Kant
- First Published: 1781
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Eighteenth century, Space and time, Time, Transcendentalism, Reason or reasoning, Logic
Context
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is an established classic in the history of epistemology. First published in 1781 and then revised in 1787, it is the fruit of Kant’s later years and, as such, clearly reflects the insight and wisdom of a mature mind. It is a work in which the author attempted to conciliate two conflicting theories of knowledge current at his time: British empiricism as represented by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, and continental rationalism as represented by René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Christian von...
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