The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

by Lea Ypi

The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198748523
• ISBN13: 9780198748526
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"