Systematic Representation of All Synthetical Principles/1st Analogy

The Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel KANT (1724 - 1804)

The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age.Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason as an attempt to bridge the gap between rationalism (there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience) and empiricism (sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge) and, in particular, to counter the radical empiricism of David Hume (our beliefs are purely the result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences). Using the methods of science, Kant demonstrates that though each mind may, indeed, create its own universe, those universes are guided by certain common laws, which are rationally discernable. (Summary by Ticktockman)

Listen next episodes of The Critique of Pure Reason:
Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Dependence of Phenomenal Existences , 3rd & 4th Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas , Antithetic of Pure Reason/1st & 2nd Conflicts , Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem , Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis , Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics , Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs , Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism , Division of All Objects into Phenomena and Noumena , Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason with regard to the Cosmological Ideas , Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason , Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief , Of the Arguments Employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being , Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason , Of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason , Of the Equivocal Nature of Amphiboly , Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God , Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof , Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-Contradictions , Of the Necessity Imposed upon Pure Reason of Presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems , Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason , Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason , Of the Ultimate End of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason , Remark on the Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflections , Second Analogy , Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Deduction of Cosmical Events from their Causes , The Antinomy of Pure Reason , The Architectonic of Pure Reason , The Canon of Pure Reason , The History of Pure Reason , The Ideal of Pure Reason , The Postulates of Empirical Thought , Third Analogy , Transcendental Dialectic: Introduction , Transcendental Doctrine of Method