Kant: The Three CritiquesISBN: 978-0-7456-2619-2
Hardcover
264 pages
August 2006, Polity
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Preface
Abbreviations and Conventions
Acknowledgments
Part I: Critique of Pure Reason
Section I: A general introduction to Kant’s Copernican revolution in Philosophy, and its relation to scientific knowledge and transcendent metaphysics
Section II: The division of judgments, and the status of mathematics and natural science
Section III: The Transcendental Aesthetic: the nature of space and time
Section IV: The Transcendental Analytic: how our experience – our knowledge of objects in space and time – is made possible
Section V: The Transcendental Dialectic: why no theoretical knowledge in transcendent metaphysics is possible
Part II: Critique of Practical Reason
Section I: The Analytic of Pure Practical Reason: reason not sentiment as the foundation of morality, and how freedom of the will is proved Section II: The Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason: how morality establishes the existence of God and the immortality of the soul
Section III: The importance of Kant’s Copernican revolution to his moral philosophy
Part III: Critique of Judgment
Section I: The Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment: defending a third way between an empiricist and a traditional rationalist theory of taste
Section II: The Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment: why the judgment of taste and our attitude to natural beauty require a Copernican revolution in aesthetics
Section III: A Kantian or Human theory of taste?
Section IV: Teleology and the Principle of the Finality of Nature
Bibliography
Index