The Critique of Practical Reason - Softcover

Kant, Immanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604592729 ISBN 13: 9781604592726

Publisher: A & D Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and it deals with Kant's own moral philosophy and his views on free will. A masterpiece of philosophical writing. The theoretical use of reason was concerned with objects of the cognitive faculty only, and a critical examination of it with reference to this use applied properly only to the pure faculty of cognition; because this raised the suspicion, which was afterwards confirmed, that it might easily pass beyond its limits, and be lost among unattainable objects, or even contradictory notions. It is quite different with the practical use of reason. In this, reason is concerned with the grounds of determination of the will, which is a faculty either to produce objects corresponding to ideas, or to determine ourselves to the effecting of such objects; that is, to determine our causality. -Immanuel Kant

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About the Author:

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher born in Prussia in 1724. Kant believed himself to be creating a compromise between the empiricists and the rationalists. The empiricists believed that knowledge is acquired through experience alone, but the rationalists maintained that such knowledge is open to Cartesian doubt and that reason alone provides us with knowledge. Kant argues, however, that using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions, while experience will be purely subjective without first being subsumed under pure reason. Kant became so famous that there is an entire field of philosophy called "Kantianism".

About this edition

• Publisher: A & D Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1604592729
• ISBN 13: 9781604592726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116