Critique of Pure Reason

1884, Kant's investigation into the nature of human reason

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Reprint. Hardback, bound in dark cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 12cm, xlii +517pp, errata, ads.

In his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique of Pure Reason brings together two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.

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A good reading copy. The joints are fraying and the hinges are staring but it remains quite a solid copy. Two previous owner's names to the half title (H J Bardsley of Worcester College, Oxford 1886, and G L Bickersteth of Christ Church, Oxford, 1906).