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The Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

78 chapters, about 191,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Section I. Of the Principles of a Transcendental Deduction in general § 9 600 words
2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1781 2,400 words
3. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 1787 7,000 words
4. I. Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge 6,700 words
5. FIRST PART. TRANSCENDENTAL ÆSTHETIC. 200 words
6. SECTION I. Of Space. 1,500 words
7. SECTION II. Of Time. 4,300 words
8. INTRODUCTION. Idea of a Transcendental Logic. 3,000 words
9. BOOK I. Analytic of Conceptions. § 2 400 words
10. Section I. Of the Logical Use of the Understanding in General § 4 500 words
11. Section II. Of the Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgements § 5 1,500 words
12. Section III. Of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding, or Categories § 6 800 words
13. TABLE OF THE CATEGORIES 1,600 words
14. Section I. Of the Principles of a Transcendental Deduction in general § 9 9,900 words
15. BOOK II. Analytic of Principles 400 words
16. INTRODUCTION. Of the Transcendental Faculty of judgement in General 500 words
17. Chapter I. Of the Schematism at of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding 2,500 words
18. Chapter II. System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding 400 words
19. Section I. Of the Supreme Principle of all Analytical Judgements 800 words
20. Section II. Of the Supreme Principle of all Synthetical Judgements 1,600 words
21. PROOF. 1,100 words
22. PROOF. 2,100 words
23. PROOF. 1,200 words
24. PROOF. 1,800 words
25. PROOF. 5,800 words
26. PROOF. 1,900 words
27. 4. THE POSTULATES OF EMPIRICAL THOUGHT. 1,900 words
28. REFUTATION OF IDEALISM. 300 words
29. PROOF 2,700 words
30. GENERAL REMARK ON THE SYSTEM OF PRINCIPLES. 5,900 words
31. APPENDIX 6,800 words
32. NOTHING AS 100 words
33. I. Of Transcendental Illusory Appearance 700 words
34. A. OF REASON IN GENERAL. 1,000 words
35. B. OF THE LOGICAL USE OF REASON. 500 words
36. C. OF THE PURE USE OF REASON. 1,400 words
37. Section I—Of Ideas in General 1,800 words
38. Section II. Of Transcendental Ideas 2,700 words
39. Section III. System of Transcendental Ideas 1,600 words
40. Chapter I. Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason 5,400 words
41. Conclusion of the Solution of the Psychological Paralogism. 400 words
42. GENERAL REMARK 900 words
43. Chapter II. The Antinomy of Pure Reason 600 words
44. Section I. System of Cosmological Ideas 2,700 words
45. Section II. Antithetic of Pure Reason 1,100 words
46. PROOF. 300 words
47. PROOF. 300 words
48. OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIRST ANTINOMY. ON THE THESIS. 500 words
49. ON THE ANTITHESIS. 300 words
50. PROOF. 200 words
51. PROOF. 400 words
52. OBSERVATIONS ON THE SECOND ANTINOMY. THESIS. 400 words
53. ANTITHESIS. 800 words
54. PROOF. 300 words
55. PROOF. 400 words
56. OBSERVATIONS ON THE THIRD ANTINOMY. ON THE THESIS. 600 words
57. ON THE ANTITHESIS. 500 words
58. PROOF. 300 words
59. PROOF. 300 words
60. OBSERVATIONS ON THE FOURTH ANTINOMY. ON THE THESIS. 800 words
61. ON THE ANTITHESIS. 500 words
62. Section III. Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-contradictions 7,400 words
63. Section VII. Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem 14,600 words
64. Section I. Of the Ideal in General 800 words
65. Section II. Of the Transcendental Ideal (Prototypon Trancendentale) 9,900 words
66. Section VI. Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof 4,900 words
67. APPENDIX. Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason 14,400 words
68. II. Transcendental Doctrine of Method 400 words
69. Chapter I. The Discipline of Pure Reason 700 words
70. Section I. The Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism 5,200 words
71. Section II. The Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics 7,200 words
72. Section III. The Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis 2,900 words
73. Section IV. The Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs 2,900 words
74. Chapter II. The Canon of Pure Reason 500 words
75. Section I. Of the Ultimate End of the Pure Use of Reason 5,200 words
76. Section III. Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief 2,800 words
77. Chapter III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason 4,400 words
78. Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason 1,000 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Absolute (philosophy)
• Accident (philosophy)
• Algebra
• Anarchism
• Antithesis
• Argument
• Belief
• By-product
• Cognition
• Conjunction (grammar)
• Consequent
• Creatio ex nihilo
• Critique
• Determinism
• Differential equation
• Epistemology
• Experience
• Free will
• God
• Hypothesis
• Idea
• Idealism
• Ignorance
• Imagination
• Impartiality
• Indian philosophy
• Infinity
• Insight
• Intuition
• Intuition (Bergson)

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