Questions tagged [critique-of-pure-reason]
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A companion or guide to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Which companion, or guide, would you recommend to someone trying to read and understand the original work, The Critique of Pure Reason? Why?
I'm inclined towards these two, The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and A Kant…
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How does Kant's moral philosophy define "goodness" and evaluate the moral worth?
Philosophy.SE, this is my first time being here, hence please pardon my inexperience of phrasing the question.
I was discussing the moral philosophy of Kant vs the moral philosophy of the Christian religion on "doing good things" and such with one…
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Identifying three kinds of "unity" in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
After reading about transcendental Aesthetics and transcendental logic, I perceive three kinds of unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason:
Unity of properties of an object which is sensed through apperception, followed by combination/unification…
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How much is our understanding of Kant's Categorical Framework (published in German in 1781) obscured by translation and basic semantics?
Upon reading about and later researching [1] Kant's famous Categorical Framework, which is included as a key part of his classic Critique of Pure Reason (1781), I am struck by aspects that are quite basic and intuitive, like his definition of…
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Where did Kant say that "happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination"?
Can somebody tell me where this famous quote comes from?
I mean in which book and on which page. I want to find this in German. If someone can provide the quote in German the way Kant wrote it, I would be grateful!
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Is my understanding of the Transcendental Deduction correct?
I don't want to misinterpret this important philosophy of Kant, so I need to ask here whether my interpretations are in accordance with what is generally accepted.
Transcendental deduction implies that it is not experiences that let us put the…
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Is our Philosophy, the Human Philosophy, the only possible Philosophy which can exist?
What I'm asking is if is there any possibility for a Non-human Philosophy, that is, a Philosophy founded on questions which we can't even conceive. Is possible a Philosophy of questions which only can be though by God, by advanced civilizations, by…
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Kant and free will
Could someone explain Kant's view on free will to me?
As I understand it, Kant says that it is necessary that we have free will, because otherwise it would be unreasonable to hold people responsible. We hold people responsible for things, even…
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How does Kant derive the categories of the understanding from the logical forms of judgment in the Critique of Pure Reason?
I didn't arrive at any cogent and clear conception of the exact relation between Kant's logical forms of judgment and his categories, and most importantly, how he derives the latter from the former.
"The same understanding - and through the same…
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Considering kantian determinism for phenomena, what's the point of ethics?
Kant's determinism seems to imply that if we (somehow) get to know all the physical properties of a certain object we can also know what will be the state of the latter object given a certain period of time.
This determinism only applies to Kant's…
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Why are mathematical judgments legitimate while metaphysical are not, according to Kant's CPR?
In my reading of Kant's CPR (I mention this because I don't want an answer according to his other critiques), I don't seem to understand on what basis is Kant distinguishing statements in math and statements in theology.
For instance, it is a…
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Kant's analytic/synthetic propositions
In the Critique of Pure Reason, an example of an analytic proposition is that all bodies are extended, and an example of a synthetic proposition is that all bodies are heavy (A7|B11), however in the Prolegomena, an example of a synthetic proposition…
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Must Kant's a priori concepts of Space and Time be known to us before the 12 pure Categories of the Understanding?
As I continue my deep read of Kant's first critique, I'm struck by the fact that both space and time are a priori concepts, known to us prior to any experience, CPR(A) Transcendental Aesthetic, S.7 p.39-40. But so too are the 12 categories in his…
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How can we understand the Schematism of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding?
This has been a particularly difficult section for me. Please forgive me if things sound opaque, but Kant is a particularly difficult writer and my reading is hurt by the fact that it isn't occurring in an institutional setting. But enough…
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What is the meaning of "dialectic"and "analytic" in Kant's First Critique?
The meaning of the term dialectic, as in Transcendental Dialectic, in the Critique Of Pure Reason, is obscure. This, mixed with the already complex text, makes this term difficult to assess.
A list of possible meanings that might fit:
Argumental:…
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