Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
48 chapters · 26 h 9 min · English
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The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age. Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason as an attempt to bridge the gap between rationalism (there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience) and empiricism (sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge) and, in particular, to counter the radical empiricism of David Hume (our beliefs are purely the result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences). Using the methods of science, Kant demonstrates that though each mind may, indeed, create its own universe, those universes are guided by certain common laws, which are rationally discernible. (Summary by Ticktockman)
Chapters
1 Preface to the First Edition, 1781 20 min 2 Preface to the Second Edition, 1787 53 min 3 Introduction 41 min 4 Transcendental Doctrine of Elements--Space 20 min 5 Transcendental Doctrine of Elements--Time 37 min 6 Transcendental Logic 26 min 7 Transcendental Analytic 24 min 8 Deduction of the Pure Conceptions 17 min 9 Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Conceptions 33 min 10 Application of the Categories to Objects of the Senses 49 min 11 Analytic of Principles/Schematism 45 min 12 System of All Principles of the Pure Understanding 15 min 13 Systematic Representation of All Synthetical Principles/1st Analogy 1 h 25 min 14 Second Analogy 37 min 15 Third Analogy 15 min 16 The Postulates of Empirical Thought 43 min 17 Division of All Objects into Phenomena and Noumena 35 min 18 Of the Equivocal Nature of Amphiboly 12 min 19 Remark on the Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflections 56 min 20 Transcendental Dialectic: Introduction 9 min 21 Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason 1 h 14 min 22 Of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason 5 min 23 Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason 49 min 24 The Antinomy of Pure Reason 27 min 25 Antithetic of Pure Reason/1st & 2nd Conflicts 39 min 26 3rd & 4th Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas 30 min 27 Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-Contradictions 28 min 28 Of the Necessity Imposed upon Pure Reason of Presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems 40 min 29 Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem 35 min 30 Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason with regard to the Cosmological Ideas 32 min 31 Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Deduction of Cosmical Events from their Causes 51 min 32 Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Dependence of Phenomenal Existences 15 min 33 The Ideal of Pure Reason 26 min 34 Of the Arguments Employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being 29 min 35 Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God 27 min 36 Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof 34 min 37 Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason 1 h 7 min 38 Of the Ultimate End of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason 52 min 39 Transcendental Doctrine of Method 3 min 40 Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism 42 min 41 Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics 51 min 42 Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis 21 min 43 Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs 21 min 44 The Canon of Pure Reason 15 min 45 Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason 25 min 46 Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief 19 min 47 The Architectonic of Pure Reason 30 min 48 The History of Pure Reason 10 min