A retelling of Immanuel Kant · 1781

Critique of Pure Reason

“Kant asks what reason can know without experience, and answers with a 'Copernican revolution': space and time are forms of our intuition, and the categories, such as cause and substance, are rules of our understanding, so that we can know the world a priori as it appears to us — but never as it is in itself. Reason's attempts to know the soul, the world as a whole, and God end in illusion; and so knowledge is limited, to make room for faith.”

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Contents8 episodes · ~27 min

  1. 1Prefaces and Introduction: The Question of MetaphysicsFree
  2. 2The Transcendental Aesthetic: Space and Time🔒
  3. 3The Analytic of Concepts: The Categories and Their Deduction🔒
  4. 4The Analytic of Principles: Schematism, Principles, the Island of Truth🔒
  5. 5The Transcendental Dialectic and the Paralogisms: The Illusion of the Soul🔒
  6. 6The Antinomy of Pure Reason: The World and Freedom🔒
  7. 7The Ideal of Pure Reason: The Proofs of God🔒
  8. 8The Doctrine of Method: Discipline, Canon, Architectonic🔒