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The Critique of Practical Reason

by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

28 chapters, about 48,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 2,500 words
2. INTRODUCTION. 400 words
3. REMARK. 800 words
4. III. THEOREM II. 300 words
5. REMARK I. 900 words
6. REMARK II. 300 words
7. IV. THEOREM II. 200 words
8. REMARK. 200 words
9. V. PROBLEM I. 200 words
10. VI. PROBLEM II. 100 words
11. REMARK. 400 words
12. REMARK. 400 words
13. REMARK. 300 words
14. VIII. THEOREM IV. 300 words
15. REMARK. 200 words
16. REMARK II. 1,400 words
17. INTERNAL EXTERNAL 5,800 words
18. CHAPTER II. Of the Concept of an Object of Pure Practical Reason. 2,700 words
19. IV. MODALITY. 2,000 words
20. CHAPTER III. Of the Motives of Pure Practical Reason. 12,500 words
21. CHAPTER I. Of a Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason Generally. 1,200 words
22. CHAPTER II. Of the Dialectic of Pure Reason in defining the 3,400 words
23. III. Of the Primacy of Pure Practical Reason in its 700 words
24. IV. The Immortality of the Soul as a Postulate of 3,400 words
25. VII. How is it possible to conceive an Extension of Pure 3,700 words
26. IX. Of the Wise Adaptation of Man's Cognitive Faculties 500 words
27. SECOND PART. 2,900 words
28. CONCLUSION. 600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Feeling
• Good
• Humility
• Legal system
• Motive (law)
• Natural law
• Noumenon
• Practical reason
• Prerogative
• Self-control
• Self-love
• Sublime (philosophy)
• Summum bonum

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