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-HUMAN [[reason]] has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by [[question]]s which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as [[transcending]] all its powers, it is also not able to answer. --incipit+"HUMAN [[reason]] has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by [[question]]s which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as [[transcending]] all its powers, it is also not able to answer." --incipit ''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'' (1781) by Immanuel Kant
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-"It still remains a scandal to philosophy . . . that the existence of [[external world|things outside of us]] ... must be accepted merely on ''faith'', and that, if anyone thinks good to doubt their existence, we are unable to counter his doubts by any satisfactory proof."+"It still remains a scandal to philosophy . . . that the existence of [[external world|things outside of us]] ... must be accepted merely on ''faith'', and that, if anyone thinks good to doubt their existence, we are unable to counter his doubts by any satisfactory proof."--''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'' (1781) by Immanuel Kant
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-"Nothing, indeed, can be more harmful or more unworthy of the [[philosophy|philosopher]], than the vulgar appeal to so-called [[experience]]. Such experience would never have existed at all, if at the proper time, those institutions had been established in accordance with [[idea]]s." --''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'', Kant+"Nothing, indeed, can be more harmful or more unworthy of the [[philosophy|philosopher]], than the vulgar appeal to so-called [[experience]]. Such experience would never have existed at all, if at the proper time, those institutions had been established in accordance with [[idea]]s."--''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'' (1781) by Immanuel Kant
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 +"If you always wore blue spectacles, you could be sure of seeing everything blue (this is not Kant's illustration). Similarly, since you always wear spatial spectacles in your mind, you are sure of always seeing everything in space. Thus geometry is ''[[a priori]]'' in the sense that it must be true of everything experienced, but we have no reason to suppose that anything analogous is true of things in themselves, which we do not experience. Space and time, Kant says, are not concepts; they are forms of "[[Intuition (philosophy) |intuition]]." (The German word is "''Anschauung''," which means literally "looking at" or "view." --''[[A History of Western Philosophy]]'' (1945) by Bertrand Russell [[Bertrand Russell's blue spectacles analogy to describe the work of Kant|[...]]]
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The Critique is one of the most important works in [[Western philosophy]]. In ''[[The World as Will and Representation]]'', [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] wrote: "Kant's teaching produces a fundamental change in every mind that has grasped it." The Critique is one of the most important works in [[Western philosophy]]. In ''[[The World as Will and Representation]]'', [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] wrote: "Kant's teaching produces a fundamental change in every mind that has grasped it."
==See also== ==See also==
-;Books+* [[Arthur Schopenhauer's criticism of Immanuel Kant's schemata]]
-* ''[[Aenesidemus (book)|Aenesidemus]]''+* [[Cosmotheology]]
-* ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]''+* ''[[Critique of the Kantian Philosophy]]''
-* ''[[Critique of Dialectical Reason]]''+* [[Kant's antinomies]]
-* ''[[Difference and Repetition]]''+* [[Noogony]]
-* ''[[Phaedon]]''+* [[Noology]]
-* ''[[The Bounds of Sense]]''+* [[Ontotheology]]
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-;People+
-* [[Edmund Husserl]]+
-* [[F. H. Bradley]]+
-* [[Rudolf Carnap]]+
-;Topics+
* [[Phenomenology (philosophy)]] * [[Phenomenology (philosophy)]]
* [[Philosophy of space and time]] * [[Philosophy of space and time]]
-* [[Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy]]+* [[Transcendental theology]]
-* [[Schopenhauer's criticism of Kant's schemata]]+ 
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"HUMAN reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer." --incipit Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant


"It still remains a scandal to philosophy . . . that the existence of things outside of us ... must be accepted merely on faith, and that, if anyone thinks good to doubt their existence, we are unable to counter his doubts by any satisfactory proof."--Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant


"Nothing, indeed, can be more harmful or more unworthy of the philosopher, than the vulgar appeal to so-called experience. Such experience would never have existed at all, if at the proper time, those institutions had been established in accordance with ideas."--Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant


"If you always wore blue spectacles, you could be sure of seeing everything blue (this is not Kant's illustration). Similarly, since you always wear spatial spectacles in your mind, you are sure of always seeing everything in space. Thus geometry is a priori in the sense that it must be true of everything experienced, but we have no reason to suppose that anything analogous is true of things in themselves, which we do not experience. Space and time, Kant says, are not concepts; they are forms of "intuition." (The German word is "Anschauung," which means literally "looking at" or "view." --A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by Bertrand Russell [...]

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The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 (A) with a second edition (B) in 1787, is generally regarded as the most influential and widely read work of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant and one of the most influential and important in the history of Western philosophy. It is often referred to as Kant's "first critique," and was followed by the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgement.

Kant saw the first critique as an attempt to bridge the gap between rationalism and empiricism — and, in particular, to counter the empiricism of David Hume — famously arguing that, although all knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it all arises out of experience (B1).

The Critique is one of the most important works in Western philosophy. In The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer wrote: "Kant's teaching produces a fundamental change in every mind that has grasped it."

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