Kant's Critique of pure reason : a critical guide /
O'Shea, James R.,
Kant's Critique of pure reason : a critical guide / James R. O'Shea, University College Dublin. - Routledge, 2012. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover Page
Half Title page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
A Brief sketch of kant's life and the historical context
Approaching the text of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
1 Metaphysics and the “Fiery Test of Critique”
1.1 Rational metaphysics: the highest aims of speculative reason
1.2 ‘Appearances’ versus ‘things in themselves’: Kant’s transcendental idealism
2 Waking From Dogmatic Slumbers: Hume and the Antinomies
2.1 Hume's scepticism and the problem of synthetic a priori judgments
2.2 The Antinomies of Pure Reason
2.3 Elusive totalities and the interests of reason: Kant's critical solution
3 Space and time as forms of human sensibility
3.1 Space and time as pure forms of sensory intuition
3.2 Assessing Kant's transcendental idealism concerningspace and time
3.3 The problem of affection and ‘things in themselves’
4 The Categories of Understanding and the Thinking Self
4.1 Conceptual thinking: the categories as a priori forms of understanding
4.2 The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
5 One Lawful Nature
5.1 Applying Categories to the world in the principles of Pure understanding
5.2 Substance and causality, self and nature: a metaphysics of experience
6 Conclusion: Pure Reason's Role in Kant's Metaphysics of Nature
6.1 Clipping the wings of pure speculative reason
6.2 Kant's critique of speculative theology in “The Ideal of Pure Reason”
6.3 The validity of pure reason's immanent regulative principles
Bibliography
Index
"Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" remains one of the landmark works of Western philosophy. Most philosophy students encounter it at some point in their studies but at nearly 700 pages of detailed and complex argument it is also a demanding and intimidating read. James O'Shea's short introduction to "CPR" aims to make it less so. Aimed at students coming to the book for the first time, it provides step by step analysis in clear, unambiguous prose. The conceptual problems Kant sought to resolve are outlined, and his conclusions concerning the nature of the faculty of human knowledge and possibility of metaphysics, and the arguments for those conclusions, are explored. In addition he shows how the "Critique" fits into the history of modern philosophy and how transcendental idealism affected the course of philosophy. Key concepts are explained throughout and the student is provided with an excellent route map through the various parts of the text.
9781107074811 (alk. paper) 9780367476328
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Causation.
Reason.
121 / OSH
Kant's Critique of pure reason : a critical guide / James R. O'Shea, University College Dublin. - Routledge, 2012. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover Page
Half Title page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
A Brief sketch of kant's life and the historical context
Approaching the text of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
1 Metaphysics and the “Fiery Test of Critique”
1.1 Rational metaphysics: the highest aims of speculative reason
1.2 ‘Appearances’ versus ‘things in themselves’: Kant’s transcendental idealism
2 Waking From Dogmatic Slumbers: Hume and the Antinomies
2.1 Hume's scepticism and the problem of synthetic a priori judgments
2.2 The Antinomies of Pure Reason
2.3 Elusive totalities and the interests of reason: Kant's critical solution
3 Space and time as forms of human sensibility
3.1 Space and time as pure forms of sensory intuition
3.2 Assessing Kant's transcendental idealism concerningspace and time
3.3 The problem of affection and ‘things in themselves’
4 The Categories of Understanding and the Thinking Self
4.1 Conceptual thinking: the categories as a priori forms of understanding
4.2 The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
5 One Lawful Nature
5.1 Applying Categories to the world in the principles of Pure understanding
5.2 Substance and causality, self and nature: a metaphysics of experience
6 Conclusion: Pure Reason's Role in Kant's Metaphysics of Nature
6.1 Clipping the wings of pure speculative reason
6.2 Kant's critique of speculative theology in “The Ideal of Pure Reason”
6.3 The validity of pure reason's immanent regulative principles
Bibliography
Index
"Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" remains one of the landmark works of Western philosophy. Most philosophy students encounter it at some point in their studies but at nearly 700 pages of detailed and complex argument it is also a demanding and intimidating read. James O'Shea's short introduction to "CPR" aims to make it less so. Aimed at students coming to the book for the first time, it provides step by step analysis in clear, unambiguous prose. The conceptual problems Kant sought to resolve are outlined, and his conclusions concerning the nature of the faculty of human knowledge and possibility of metaphysics, and the arguments for those conclusions, are explored. In addition he shows how the "Critique" fits into the history of modern philosophy and how transcendental idealism affected the course of philosophy. Key concepts are explained throughout and the student is provided with an excellent route map through the various parts of the text.
9781107074811 (alk. paper) 9780367476328
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Causation.
Reason.
121 / OSH