In the "Critique of Pure Reason", Immanuel Kant laid out a framework upon which
the whole of modern philosophy is based. This "Penguin Classics" edition is tran
slated from the German and edited with an introduction by Marcus Weigelt, based
on the translation by Max Muller. Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".
It presen
ts a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its
knowledge and illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts t
hat precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled t
o draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique bri
ngs together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds
all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to e
xperience.
