Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant Translated by Norman Kemp Smith With a New Preface by Howard Ca

• ISBN13: 9781403911957
• ISBN10: 1403911959
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-09-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding and difficult of all philosophical works. Norman Kemp Smith's translation is immensely valuable, not simply because he rendered Kant's language into readable English, but also because his own extensive understanding of the Critique made him acutely aware of the pitfalls of translation. This text is that of the second edition of 1787, with an additional translation of all first edition passages which in the second edition were either altered or omitted. For this reissue of Norman Kemp Smith's classic 1929 edition, Howard Caygill has contributed a new Preface, setting this translation into the context both of Kemp Smith's own life and work, and of his influence on Kant scholarship.

Author Biography

Norman Kemp Smith (1872-1958) lectured at Princeton and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh.

Howard Caygill is Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Of the Difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge	p. 1
The Human Intellect, even in an unphilosophical state, is in possession of certain cognitions a priori	p. 2
Philosophy stands in need of a Science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of Human Knowledge a priori	p. 4
Of the Difference between Analytical and Synthetical Judgments	p. 7
In all Theoretical Sciences of Reason, Synthetical Judgments a priori are contained as Principles	p. 9
The Universal Problem of Pure Reason	p. 12
Idea and Division of a Particular Science, under the Name of a Critique of Pure Reason	p. 15
Transcendental Doctrine of Elements
Transcendental AEsthetic
Introductory	p. 21
Of Space
Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception	p. 23
Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Space	p. 25
Conclusions from the foregoing Conceptions	p. 25
Of Time
Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception	p. 28
Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Time	p. 29
Conclusions from the above Conceptions	p. 30
Elucidation	p. 32
General Remarks on Transcendental AEsthetic	p. 35
Transcendental Logic
Of Logic in general	p. 44
Of Transcendental Logic	p. 47
Of the Division of General Logic into Analytic and Dialectic	p. 48
Of the Division of Transcendental Logic into Transcendental Analytic and Dialectic	p. 51
Transcendental Analytic	p. 52
Analytic of Conceptions	p. 53
Of the Transcendental Clue to the Discovery of all Pure Conceptions of the Understanding	p. 53
Of the Logical use of the Understanding in general	p. 54
Of the Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgments	p. 55
Of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding, or Categories	p. 60
Of the Deduction of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding
Of the Principles of Transcendental Deduction in general	p. 68
Transition to the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories	p. 72
Of the Possibility of a Conjunction of the manifold representations given by Sense	p. 75
Of the Originally Synthetical Unity of Apperception	p. 76
The Principle of the Synthetical Unity of Apperception is the highest Principle of all exercise of the Understanding	p. 79
What Objective Unity of Self-consciousness is	p. 80
The Logical Form of all Judgments consists in the Objective Unity of Apperception of the Conceptions contained therein	p. 81
All Sensuous Intuitions are subject to the Categories, as Conditions under which alone the manifold contents of them can be united in one Consciousness	p. 82
Observation	p. 83
In Cognition, its Application to Objects of Experience is the only legitimate use of the Category	p. 84
Of the Application of the Categories to Objects of the Senses in general	p. 86
Transcendental Deduction of the universally possible employment in experience of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding	p. 91
Result of this Deduction of the Conceptions of the Understanding	p. 94
Short view of the above Deduction	p. 96
Analytic of Principles	p. 97
Of the Transcendental Faculty of Judgment in general	p. 98
Of the Schematism of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding	p. 100
System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding	p. 106
Of the Supreme Principle of all Analytical Judgments	p. 108
Of the Supreme Principle of all Synthetical Judgments	p. 110
Systematic Representations of all Synthetical Principles thereof	p. 112
Axioms of Intuition	p. 115
Anticipations of Perception	p. 117
Analogies of Experience	p. 122
First Analogy.--Principle of the Permanence of Substance	p. 124
Second Analogy.--Principle of the Succession of Time	p. 128
Third Analogy.--Principle of Coexistence	p. 138
The Postulates of Empirical Thought	p. 142
Refutation of Idealism	p. 147
General Remark on the System of Principles	p. 153
Of the Ground of the division of all objects into Phenomena and Noumena	p. 156
Of the Equivocal Nature or Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection from the Confusion of the Transcendental with the Empirical use of the Understanding	p. 168
Remark on the Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection	p. 172
Transcendental Dialectic
Of Transcendental Illusory Appearance	p. 186
Of Pure Reason as the Seat of Transcendental Illusory Appearance	p. 189
Of Reason in General	p. 189
Of the Logical Use of Reason	p. 192
Of the Pure Use of Reason	p. 193
Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason	p. 196
Of Ideas in General	p. 197
Of Transcendental Ideas	p. 202
System of Transcendental Ideas	p. 209
Of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason	p. 212
Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason	p. 196
Refutation of the Argument of Mendelssohn for the Substantiality or Permanence of the Soul	p. 221
Conclusion of the Solution of the Psychological Paralogism	p. 227
General Remark on the Transition from Rational Psychology to Cosmology	p. 228
The Antinomy of Pure Reason	p. 230
System of Cosmological Ideas	p. 232
Antithetic of Pure Reason	p. 238
First Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas	p. 241
Second Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas	p. 246
Third Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas	p. 252
Fourth Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas	p. 257
Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-contradictions	p. 262
Of the Necessity Imposed upon Pure Reason of presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems	p. 270
Sceptical Exposition of the Cosmological Problems presented in the four Transcendental Ideas	p. 275
Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of Pure Cosmological Dialectic	p. 278
Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problems	p. 281
Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in relation to the Cosmological Ideas	p. 287
Of the Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason, with regard to the Cosmological Ideas	p. 291
Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Composition of Phenomena in the Universe	p. 292
Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Division of a Whole given in Intuition	p. 295
Concluding Remark on the Solution of the Transcendental Mathematical Ideas--and Introductory to the Solution of the Dynamical Ideas	p. 297
Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Deduction of Cosmical Events from their Causes	p. 299
Possibility of Freedom in Harmony with the Universal Law of Natural Necessity	p. 302
Exposition of the Cosmological Idea of Freedom in Harmony with the Universal Law of Natural Necessity	p. 304
Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Dependence of Phenomenal Existences	p. 314
Concluding Remarks on the Antinomy of Pure Reason	p. 317
The Ideal of Pure Reason
Of the Ideal in General	p. 318
Of the Transcendental Ideal	p. 320
Of the Arguments Employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being	p. 327
Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God	p. 331
Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God	p. 337
Detection and Explanation of the Dialectical Illusion in all Transcendental Arguments for the Existence of a Necessary Being	p. 344
Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof	p. 347
Critique of all Theology based upon Speculative Principles of Reason	p. 353
Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason	p. 359
Of the Ultimate End of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason	p. 375
Transcendental Doctrine of Method
Introduction	p. 397
The Discipline of Pure Reason	p. 398
The Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism	p. 400
The Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics	p. 415
Scepticism Not a Permanent State for Human Reason	p. 425
The Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis	p. 432
The Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs	p. 439
The Canon of Pure Reason	p. 446
Of the Ultimate End of the Pure Use of Reason	p. 447
Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the ultimate End of Pure Reason	p. 451
Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief	p. 460
The Architectonic of Pure Reason	p. 466
The History of Pure Reason	p. 477
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