Kant's Theory of Knowledge

A reprint of the Macmillan edition of 1968.

While most interpretive studies of the Critique of Pure Reason are either too scholarly or too superficial to be of practical use to students, Hartnack has achieved a concise comprehensive analysis of the work in a lucid style that communicates the essence of extraordinarily complex arguments in the simplest possible way. An ideal companion to the First Critique, especially for those grappling with the work for the first time.

Contents:

1) INTRODUCTION

2) THE TRANSCENDENTAL AESTHETIC

3) THE TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC

The Metaphysical Deduction

The Transcendental Deduction

The Schematism

The System of All Principles of Pure Understanding:
Axioms of Intuition
Anticipations of Perception
The Analogies of Experience:
The First Analogy
The Second Analogy
The Third Analogy
The Postulates of Empirical Thought:
The First Postulate
The Second Postulate
The Third Postulate
Kant’s Refutation of Idealism

Phenomena and Noumena

The Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection

4) THE TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC

The Transcendental Illusion

The Paralogisms of Pure Reason:
The First Paralogism
The Second Paralogism
The Third Paralogism
The Fourth Paralogism

The Antinomies of Pure Reason:
The First Antinomy
The Second Antinomy
The Third Antinomy
The Fourth Antinomy
The Solution of the First Antinomy
The Solution of the Second Antinomy
The Solution of the Third Antinomy
The Solution of the Fourth Antinomy

The Ideal of Pure Reason:
The Concept of God
The Ontological Proof of God
The Cosmological Proof
The Physicotheological Proof

The Regulative Use of Ideas

5) CONCLUSION

About the Author:

Justus Hartnack is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, SUNY Brockport.