CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION
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I. Textual
Kant’s Method of composing the Critique of Pure Reason xix
II. Historical
Kant’s Relation to Hume and to Leibniz xxv
III. General
1. The Nature of the a priori xxxiii
2. Kant’s Contribution to the Science of Logic xxxvi
3. The Nature of Consciousness xxxix
4. Phenomenalism, Kant’s Substitute for Subjectivism xlv
5. The Distinction between Human and Animal Intelligence xlvii
6. The Nature and Conditions of Self-Consciousness l
7. Kant’s threefold Distinction between Sensibility, Understanding, and Reason lii
8. The place of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant’s Philosophical System lv
THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON[1]
Title 1
Motto 4
Dedication to Freiherr von Zedlitz 6
Preface To the First Edition 8
Comment on Preface 10
Dogmatism, Scepticism, Criticism 13
Preface To the Second Edition 17
The Copernican Hypothesis 22
Introduction 26
Comment upon the Argument of Kant’s Introduction 33
How are Synthetic a priori Judgments possible? 43
The Analytic and Synthetic Methods 44
Purpose and Scope of the Critique 56
Kant’s relation to Hume 61
Meaning of the term Transcendental 73
The Transcendental Doctrine of Elements
Part I. The Transcendental Aesthetic 79-166
Definition of Terms 79
Kant’s conflicting Views of Space 88
Section I. Space 99
Kant’s Attitude to the Problems of Modern Geometry 117
Section II. Time 123
Kant’s Views regarding the Nature of Arithmetical Science 128
Kant’s conflicting Views of Time 134
General Observations on the Transcendental Aesthetic 143
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Concluding Comment on Kant’s Doctrine of the Antinomies 519
Chapter III. The Ideal of Pure Reason 522
Section I. and II. The Transcendental Ideal 522
Comment on Kant’s Method of Argument 524
Section III. The Speculative Arguments in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being 525
Section IV. The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof 527
Comment on Kant’s Method of Argument 528
Section V. The Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God 531
Comment on Kant’s Method of Argument 533
Discovery and Explanation of the Transcendental Illusion in all Transcendental Proof of the Existence of a necessary Being 534
Comment on Kant’s Method of Argument 535
Section VI. The Impossibility of the Physico-Theological Proof 538
Section VII. Criticism of all Theology based on speculative Principles of Reason 541
Concluding Comment 541
Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic 543
The Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason 543
Hypotheses not permissible in Philosophy 543
On the Final Purpose of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason 552
Concluding Comment on the Dialectic 558
Appendix A.
The Transcendental Doctrine of Methods 563
Chapter I. The Discipline of Pure Reason 563
Section I. The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Dogmatic Employment 563
Section II. The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Polemical Employment 567
Section III. The Discipline of Pure Reason in regard to Hypotheses 568
Section IV. The Discipline of Pure Reason in regard to its Proofs 568
Chapter II. The Canon of Pure Reason 569
Section I. The Ultimate End of the Pure Use of our Reason 569
Section II. The Ideal of the Highest Good, as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason 570
Section III. Opining, Knowing, and Believing 576
Chapter III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason 579
Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason 582
Appendix B.
A more detailed Statement of Kant’s Relations to his Philosophical Predecessors 583
Index: A, B

In all references to the Kritik der Reinen Vernunft I have given the original pagings of both the first and second editions. References to Kant’s other works are, whenever possible, to the volumes thus far issued in the new Berlin edition. As the Reflexionen Kants zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft had not been published in this edition at the time when the Commentary was completed, the numbering given is that of B. Erdmann’s edition of 1884.


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