Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Couverture souple

Kant, Immanuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312450109 ISBN 13 : 9780312450106

Editeur : St Martins Pr, 1969

Synopsis

Book by Immanuel Kant

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materialists believed that the world (including its human component) consisted of objective matter, an irreducible substance to which qualities and characteristics could be attributed. Mindthoughts, ideas, and perceptionswas viewed as a more sophisticated material substance. Idealists, on the other hand, argued that the world acquired its reality from mind, which breathed metaphysical life into substances that had no independent existence of their own.

These two camps seemed deadlocked until Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason endeavored to show that the most accurate theory of reality would be one that combined relevant aspects of each position, yet transcended both to arrive at a more fundamental metaphysical theory. Kant's synthesis sought to disclose how human reason goes about constructing its experience of the world, thus intertwining objective simuli with rational processes that arrive at an orderly view of nature.

Biographie de l'auteur

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is considered the central figure of modern philosophy. Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth. His beliefs continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory, and aesthetics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martins Pr
• Date d'édition: 1969
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312450109
• ISBN 13: 9780312450106
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 681
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible