The Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason, published by Immanuel Kant in 1781, is one of the most complex structures and the most significant of modern philosophy, bringing a revolution at least as great as that of Descartes and his Discourse on Method. The complexity of the first review (the second is the critique of practical reason, and the third is a critique of the faculty of judging), is such that Kant himself published an introductory text, entitled Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. The aim of this book is summed up quite easily, however: metaphysics is a battle that needs to be ordered. Kant proposes to everyone agreed, giving a new status to reason and new contours to the understanding. In summary, the critique of pure reason tries to define credible to the question: How do I know? To this question Kant answers, I can think of the objects of metaphysics (God, I, the world), but not knowing in the sense that I know the laws of physics. Biography N le 22 avril 1724 K nigsberg, capitale de la Prusse-Orientale, il y est mort le 12 f vrier 1804. Grand penseur de l'Aufklarung, Kant a exerc une influence consid rable sur l'id alisme allemand, la philosophie analytique, la ph nom nologie, la philosophie postmoderne, et la pens e critique en g n ral. Son oeuvre, consid rable et diverse dans ses int r ts, mais centr e autour des trois Critiques, savoir la Critique de la raison pure, la Critique de la raison pratique et la Critique de la facult de juger, fait ainsi l'objet d'appropriations et d'interpr tations successives et divergentes Biographie Emmanuel Kant na t en 1724 Konigsberg en Prusse-Orientale (actuellement Kaliningrad en Russie) dans un milieu modeste son p re, d'origine cossaise, est sellier, et sa m re, qu'il qualifie de tr s intelligente, est fonci rement pi tiste. Il est le quatri me d'une famille de onze enfants. Il fr quente durant sept ans le Collegium Fridericianum, dirig par Franz Albert Schultz, pasteur pi tiste qui consid re la pi t de l' me comme sup rieure au raisonnement. John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1836-1902) was a Scottish author, journalist and academic, known as a writer of school books.