Pure Rational Critique

Author: Immanuel Kant
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book is one of Kant's three critiques, as well as one of his most significant and monumental philosophical works, which changed the direction and progress of Western philosophy. Kant spent 11 years completing it, with the first edition published in early 1781 and the second edition in 1787. The fundamental guiding principle throughout is: through a critical examination of reason itself, i.e., human innate cognitive abilities, to determine what innate elements—those possessing universality and necessity—they possess, as well as their sources, functions, conditions, scope, and limits. This, in turn, determines what reason can and cannot know, and on this basis, to make the final judgment and regulation of the fate and future of metaphysics, with the mission of providing a solid and reliable foundation for genuine, scientific metaphysics. The book contains over 400,000 words and is divided into "Transcendental Elements" and "Transcendental Methodology," in addition to a preface and a general introduction. The Chinese translation is directly from the original German by Deng Xiaomang and edited by Yang Zutao, with its translation being excellent and considered a masterpiece. An index of German-Chinese terms, a Chinese-German term comparison, and a name index are also included at the end for convenience.