The Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, first edition 1781, substantially revised 1787) is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy and the founding document of his 'critical' philosophy. Seeking to end the deadlock between rationalism and empiricism, Kant argues that the mind actively structures experience through a priori forms of intuition (space and time) and categories of the understanding, so that we can have genuine knowledge only of appearances, never of things as they are in themselves. The translation is J. M. D. Meiklejohn's of 1855, long the standard English rendering.
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