... secondly, Kant's critical philosophy is not only an apotheosis of the preceding Western ways of thinking and believing, but forms also (at least one of) the foundations of those intuitions, ideas, beliefs and convictions, which are dominantly present in our time. The first reconstruction, itself mainly concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason, shows that what has been called 'Kant's Copernican Turn ... him to unrelenting self-criticism and to a criticism of the world. Again and again Kant fulminates in the Critique of Pure Reason against the dogmatic philosophy that, while hypostatiz...

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... with reason's own abilities. The critique must show how reason determines certain statements to be a priori. Once reason has discovered the justification for each of its a priori principles, it can determine the proper extent to which each principle can be applied to the objects of cognition. "For reason is the faculty that provides us with the principles of a priori cognition. Hence pure reason is that reason which contains the principles for cognizing something absolutely a priori" (645). The special science of the critique of pure reason ... must gather a comprehensive list of all th...

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... varied manifestations, whether in science, philosophy, literature, art, or social life, are properly treated under the title idealism. The keystone of Kant's philosophy, sometimes called critical philosophy, is contained in his Critique of Pure Reason (1781), in which he examined the bases of human knowledge and created an individual epistemology. Like earlier philosophers, Kant differentiated modes of thinking into analytic and synthetic propositions. An analytic proposition is one in which ... the predicate is contained in the subject, as in the statement "Black houses are houses." Th...

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... varied manifestations, whether in science, philosophy, literature, art, or social life, are properly treated under the title idealism. The keystone of Kant's philosophy, sometimes called critical philosophy, is contained in his Critique of Pure Reason (1781), in which he examined the bases of human knowledge and created an individual epistemology. Like earlier philosophers, Kant differentiated modes of thinking into analytic and synthetic propositions. An analytic proposition is one in which ... the predicate is contained in the subject, as in the statement "Black houses are houses." Th...

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