The Critique of Pure Reason
Kant set out to settle whether metaphysics could ever be a science, and the answer reshaped Western thought. He asks how the mind can know anything before experience, and argues that space, time, and the categories of understanding are not features of the world but structures the mind imposes on it. From this comes his famous claim that we know appearances, never things as they are in themselves. Dense and demanding, the book dismantles both the rationalists who trusted pure reason and the empiricists who trusted only the senses, then rebuilds knowledge on new ground. First published in 1781, it remains one of the most important and difficult works in all of philosophy. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preface to the First Edition, 1781 | 20:04 | |
| 2 | Preface to the Second Edition, 1787 | 53:26 | |
| 3 | Introduction | 40:45 | |
| 4 | Transcendental Doctrine of Elements--Space | 20:21 | |
| 5 | Transcendental Doctrine of Elements--Time | 37:25 | |
| 6 | Transcendental Logic | 26:14 | |
| 7 | Transcendental Analytic | 23:33 | |
| 8 | Deduction of the Pure Conceptions | 17:20 | |
| 9 | Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Conceptions | 32:34 | |
| 10 | Application of the Categories to Objects of the Senses | 48:46 | |
| 11 | Analytic of Principles/Schematism | 45:14 | |
| 12 | System of All Principles of the Pure Understanding | 15:11 | |
| 13 | Systematic Representation of All Synthetical Principles/1st Analogy | 1:24:59 | |
| 14 | Second Analogy | 36:48 | |
| 15 | Third Analogy | 14:47 | |
| 16 | The Postulates of Empirical Thought | 43:08 | |
| 17 | Division of All Objects into Phenomena and Noumena | 34:55 | |
| 18 | Of the Equivocal Nature of Amphiboly | 12:25 | |
| 19 | Remark on the Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflections | 55:51 | |
| 20 | Transcendental Dialectic: Introduction | 9:07 | |
| 21 | Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason | 1:14:18 | |
| 22 | Of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason | 4:49 | |
| 23 | Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason | 49:08 | |
| 24 | The Antinomy of Pure Reason | 26:52 | |
| 25 | Antithetic of Pure Reason/1st & 2nd Conflicts | 38:56 | |
| 26 | 3rd & 4th Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas | 29:49 | |
| 27 | Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-Contradictions | 27:35 | |
| 28 | Of the Necessity Imposed upon Pure Reason of Presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems | 40:09 | |
| 29 | Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem | 35:03 | |
| 30 | Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason with regard to the Cosmological Ideas | 32:20 | |
| 31 | Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Deduction of Cosmical Events from their Causes | 51:16 | |
| 32 | Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Dependence of Phenomenal Existences | 15:24 | |
| 33 | The Ideal of Pure Reason | 26:29 | |
| 34 | Of the Arguments Employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being | 28:55 | |
| 35 | Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God | 26:53 | |
| 36 | Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof | 34:04 | |
| 37 | Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason | 1:06:38 | |
| 38 | Of the Ultimate End of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason | 51:33 | |
| 39 | Transcendental Doctrine of Method | 3:06 | |
| 40 | Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism | 42:22 | |
| 41 | Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics | 50:46 | |
| 42 | Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis | 20:45 | |
| 43 | Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs | 20:33 | |
| 44 | The Canon of Pure Reason | 14:37 | |
| 45 | Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason | 24:53 | |
| 46 | Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief | 19:10 | |
| 47 | The Architectonic of Pure Reason | 30:13 | |
| 48 | The History of Pure Reason | 9:52 |
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