Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

by T.E. Wilkerson

Book Overview

This is quite simply the best book available on this subject. Beautifully written, clear & to-the-point, it is an in-depth examination of the main arguments in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The perfect text for philosophy undergraduates, it is the only book to give a clear & manageable route through the first Critique. First published in 1976, this is a new & revised edition which has better layout, is easier to read & fully indexed. * new & extensively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198245491
• ISBN13: 9780198245490
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More than for beginners

This book is a commentary on Kant¡¯s ¡®Critique of Pure Reason¡¯, supposed to be read by beginners. But it could be read on its own for it doesn¡¯t rely on Kant¡¯s reasoning to be a coherent text. This book presents the reader not only the nub of Kant¡¯s book, but the validity of Kant¡¯s reasoning with author¡¯s attesting. Kant¡¯s thought is presented not to be memorized but to be testified. As Kant did in his three ¡®Critiques¡¯ including ¡®Critique of Pure Reason¡¯, Kant¡¯s own argument should be questioned or, in Kant¡¯s word, criticized, ¡®How is it possible?¡¯ For example, as much as possible, the author refrains from using Kant¡¯s terminology on its own. Terminology itself should be introduced and used with sufficient grounding. When there has been enough grounding, the author begin to use Kant¡¯s terminology. Grounding terminology means founding Kant¡¯s argument. Terminology is no more than culmination of the argument. Terminology is no more than the summary of argument. To criticize Kant¡¯s argument, the author summarizes Kant¡¯s argument into a few simple points, and tackles them with delicate analyses in the word and examples we are more familiar than Kant¡¯s. with following through the process, we could catch the intrinsic meaning of Kant¡¯s arguments which we think we already know enough, but in fact doesn¡¯t understand. Moreover, if Kant¡¯s argument doesn¡¯t seem plausible, the author not only attacks the weakness of it, but reconstructs it to be acceptable. In so doing, though Kant has been dissected and denounced by innumerable commentators, the author shows that Kant is still the admirable and worth reading philosopher.