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Kant

A topic within Medieval & Early Modern Philosophy, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

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    Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

    Immanuel Kant · 1783

    A shorter, deliberately more approachable restatement of the Critique of Pure Reason's central question — how synthetic a priori knowledge is…

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    Critique of Pure Reason

    Immanuel Kant · 1781

    Space and time are forms our own mind imposes on experience rather than features of things in themselves, which lets Kant explain how synthetic a…

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Book1781

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

Space and time are forms our own mind imposes on experience rather than features of things in themselves, which lets Kant explain how synthetic a priori knowledge is possible while restricting metaphysics to what can appear within those forms.

about 14 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026
Book1788

The Critique of Practical Reason

Immanuel Kant

Argues pure reason alone, independent of desire or consequence, can determine the will through the moral law, and that belief in God and immortality is a rational requirement of taking the moral law seriously even though neither can be proven theoretically.

about 4 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026

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