The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy
A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure
Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of
thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and
empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Published here
in a lucid reworking of Max Müller's classic translation, the Critique
is a profound investigation into the nature of human reason,
establishing its truth, falsities, illusions, and reality.
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