tailieunhanh - THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

Tham khảo sách 'the critique of pure reason', giáo dục - đào tạo, cao đẳng - đại học phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 1 Critique OF Pure Reason BY MMANUEL KANT PROFESSOR N KÙNIGSBERG THAN SLATED BY I. M. D. MhlKLEIOHN MANYBOOKS NET CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON by Immanuel Kant translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1781 Human reason in one sphere of its cognition is called upon to consider questions which it cannot decline as they are presented by its own nature but which it cannot answer as they transcend every faculty of the mind. It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own. It begins with principles which cannot be dispensed with in the field of experience and the truth and sufficiency of which are at the same time insured by experience. With these principles it rises in obedience to the laws of its own nature to ever higher and more remote conditions. But it quickly discovers that in this way its labours must remain ever incomplete because new questions never cease to present themselves and thus it finds itself compelled to have recourse to principles which transcend the region of experience while they are regarded by common sense without 2 distrust. It thus falls into confusion and contradictions from which it conjectures the presence of latent errors which however it is unable to discover because the principles it employs transcending the limits of experience cannot be tested by that criterion. The arena of these endless contests is called Metaphysic. Time was when she was the queen of all the sciences and if we take the will for the deed she certainly deserves so far as regards the high importance of her object-matter this title of honour. Now it is the fashion of the time to heap contempt and scorn upon her and the matron mourns forlorn and forsaken like Hecuba Modo maxima rerum Tot generis natisque potens. Nunc trahor exul inops. -- Ovid Metamorphoses. xiii At first her government under the .