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1Discovery and Explanation of the Dialectical Illusion in all Transcendental Proofs of the Existence of a Necessary Being ...... 495 Section 6. Of the Impossibility of the Physico-theological Proof 499 Section 7. Criticism of ail Theology based on Speculative Principles of Reason ..... 508 X Table of Contents PAGE (Book II. Chapter III. Section 7.) Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic. Of tlie Regulative Use of the Ideas of Pure Reason . 516 Of the Ultimate Aim of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason 537 II. Method of Transcendentalism .... 565-686 Chapter I. The Discipline of Pure Reason . . . 569 Section i. The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Dogmatical Use ......... 572 Section 2. The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Polemical Use ......... 593 The Impossibility of a Sceptical Satisfaction of Pure Reason in Conflict with itself ..... 608 Section 3. The Discipline of Pure Reason with Regard to Hypotheses . . . . . . . .617 Section 4. The Discipline of Pure Reason with Regard to its Proofs ........ 627 Chapter II. The Canon of Pure Reason . . .• . 638 Section i. Of the Ultimate Aim of the Pure Use of our Reason ........ 640 Section 2. Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as determining the Ultimate Aim of Pure Reason . 645 Section 3. Of Trowing, Knowing, and Believing . . 657 Chapter III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason « . 667 Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason . . . 683 Supplements 687-808 TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE ROYAL MINISTER OF STATE BARON VON ZEDLITZ DEDICATION Sir,
2To further, so far as in us lies, the growth of the sciences is to work in your Excellency's own interest, your own interest being intimately connected with them, not only through the exalted position of a patron of science, but through the far more intimate relation of a lover and enlightened judge. For that reason I* avail myself of the only means within my power of proving my gratitude for the gracious confidence with which your Excellency honours me, as if I too could help toward your noble work. » [Whoever delights in a speculative life finds with moderate wishes the approval of an enlightened and kind judge a powerful incentive to studies the results of which are great, but remote, and therefore entirely ignored by vulgar eyes.] To you, as such a judge, and to your kind attention I now submit this book, placing all other concerns of my literary future under your special protection, and remaining with profound respect ^ Your Excellency's Most obedient Servant, IMMANUEL KANT. KONIGSBERG, March 29, 178 1. 1 The second paragraph is left out and the last sentence slightly altered in the Second Edition. xiii TABLE OF CONTENTS TO THE FIRST EDITION' Introduction (I) I. ELEMENTS OF TRANSCENDENTALISM. PART I. Transcendental Esthetic . Section I. Of Space .... Section II. Of Time .... 17 (19) 20 (22) 27 (30) PART 11. Transcendental Logic . . . .44 (50) Division I. Transcendental Analytic in two books, with their chapters and sections . . . -56 (64) Division II. Transcendental Dialectic in two books, with their chapters and sections .... 254 (293) II. METHOD OF TRANSCENDENTALISM. Chapter I. The Discipline of Pure Reason . . 607 (708) Chapter II. The Canon of Pure Reason . . 682 (795) Chapter III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason . 714 (832)
3Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason . .731 (852) 1 Instead of this simple Table of Contents, later editions have a much fuller one (Supplement III), which, as Rosenkranz observes, obscures rather than illustrates the articulation of the book. XV PREFACE 1 Our reason (Vernunft) has this peculiar fate that, with reference to one class of its kno\vledge, it is always troubled with questions which cannot be ignored, because they spring from the very.^.atnre -of reason, and which cannot be answered, because _they transcend the powers of human reason. Nor is human reason to be blamed for this. It begins with principles which, in the course of experience, jt/;??/j'^ follow^-^nd which are sufficiently confirmed by experience. With these again, according to the necessities of its nature, it rises higher and higher to more remote conditions. But when it perceives that in this way its work remains for ever incomplete, because the questions never cease, it finds itself constrained to takerefuge_iii--ftf4nciples which exceed..£y_erv possible experimental application, and nevertheless seem so. unobj^ectionable that even jardinary common sense agrees with them. Thus, however, reason becomes involved in darkness--ajid-. -Contradictions, from which, no doubt, it may conclude that errors must be lurking somewhere, but without being able to discover them, because the^^pxinciples which it fgllaws transcend all the limits of experience" and therefore withdraw them1 This preface is left out in later editions, and replaced by a new preface; see Supplement II (Vol. I, p. 364). xvii xviii Preface selves from all experimental tests. It is the battle-field of these endless controversies which is cdi^^^di'Metaphysic.
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1Discovery and Explanation of the Dialectical Illusion in all Transcendental Proofs of the Existence of a Necessary Being ...... 495 Section 6. Of the Impossibility of the Physico-theological Proof 499 Section 7. Criticism of ail Theology based on Speculative Principles of Reason ..... 508 X Table of Contents PAGE (Book II. Chapter III. Section 7.) Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic. Of tlie Regulative Use of the Ideas of Pure Reason . 516 Of the Ultimate Aim of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason 537 II. Method of Transcendentalism .... 565-686 Chapter I. The Discipline of Pure Reason . . . 569 Section i. The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Dogmatical Use ......... 572 Section 2. The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Polemical Use ......... 593 The Impossibility of a Sceptical Satisfaction of Pure Reason in Conflict with itself ..... 608 Section 3. The Discipline of Pure Reason with Regard to Hypotheses . . . . . . . .617 Section 4. The Discipline of Pure Reason with Regard to its Proofs ........ 627 Chapter II. The Canon of Pure Reason . . .• . 638 Section i. Of the Ultimate Aim of the Pure Use of our Reason ........ 640 Section 2. Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as determining the Ultimate Aim of Pure Reason . 645 Section 3. Of Trowing, Knowing, and Believing . . 657 Chapter III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason « . 667 Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason . . . 683 Supplements 687-808 TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE ROYAL MINISTER OF STATE BARON VON ZEDLITZ DEDICATION Sir,
2To further, so far as in us lies, the growth of the sciences is to work in your Excellency's own interest, your own interest being intimately connected with them, not only through the exalted position of a patron of science, but through the far more intimate relation of a lover and enlightened judge. For that reason I* avail myself of the only means within my power of proving my gratitude for the gracious confidence with which your Excellency honours me, as if I too could help toward your noble work. » [Whoever delights in a speculative life finds with moderate wishes the approval of an enlightened and kind judge a powerful incentive to studies the results of which are great, but remote, and therefore entirely ignored by vulgar eyes.] To you, as such a judge, and to your kind attention I now submit this book, placing all other concerns of my literary future under your special protection, and remaining with profound respect ^ Your Excellency's Most obedient Servant, IMMANUEL KANT. KONIGSBERG, March 29, 178 1. 1 The second paragraph is left out and the last sentence slightly altered in the Second Edition. xiii TABLE OF CONTENTS TO THE FIRST EDITION' Introduction (I) I. ELEMENTS OF TRANSCENDENTALISM. PART I. Transcendental Esthetic . Section I. Of Space .... Section II. Of Time .... 17 (19) 20 (22) 27 (30) PART 11. Transcendental Logic . . . .44 (50) Division I. Transcendental Analytic in two books, with their chapters and sections . . . -56 (64) Division II. Transcendental Dialectic in two books, with their chapters and sections .... 254 (293) II. METHOD OF TRANSCENDENTALISM. Chapter I. The Discipline of Pure Reason . . 607 (708) Chapter II. The Canon of Pure Reason . . 682 (795) Chapter III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason . 714 (832)
3Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason . .731 (852) 1 Instead of this simple Table of Contents, later editions have a much fuller one (Supplement III), which, as Rosenkranz observes, obscures rather than illustrates the articulation of the book. XV PREFACE 1 Our reason (Vernunft) has this peculiar fate that, with reference to one class of its kno\vledge, it is always troubled with questions which cannot be ignored, because they spring from the very.^.atnre -of reason, and which cannot be answered, because _they transcend the powers of human reason. Nor is human reason to be blamed for this. It begins with principles which, in the course of experience, jt/;??/j'^ follow^-^nd which are sufficiently confirmed by experience. With these again, according to the necessities of its nature, it rises higher and higher to more remote conditions. But when it perceives that in this way its work remains for ever incomplete, because the questions never cease, it finds itself constrained to takerefuge_iii--ftf4nciples which exceed..£y_erv possible experimental application, and nevertheless seem so. unobj^ectionable that even jardinary common sense agrees with them. Thus, however, reason becomes involved in darkness--ajid-. -Contradictions, from which, no doubt, it may conclude that errors must be lurking somewhere, but without being able to discover them, because the^^pxinciples which it fgllaws transcend all the limits of experience" and therefore withdraw them1 This preface is left out in later editions, and replaced by a new preface; see Supplement II (Vol. I, p. 364). xvii xviii Preface selves from all experimental tests. It is the battle-field of these endless controversies which is cdi^^^di'Metaphysic.
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