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The Critique of Pure Reason, published by Immanuel Kant in 1781, is one of the most complex structures and the most significant of modern philosophy, bringing a revolution at least as great as that of Descartes and his Discourse on Method.The complexity of the first review (the second is the critique of practical reason, and the third is a critique of the faculty of judging), is such that Kant himself published an introductory text, entitled Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.The aim of this book is summed up quite easily, however: metaphysics is a battle that needs to be ordered. Kant proposes to everyone agreed, giving a new status to reason and new contours to the understanding. In summary, the critique of pure reason tries to define credible to the question: How do I know? To this question Kant answers, I can think of the objects of metaphysics (God, I, the world), but not knowing in the sense that I know the laws of physics.Biography :N� le 22 avril 1724 � K�nigsberg, capitale de la Prusse-Orientale, il y est mort le 12 f�vrier 1804. Grand penseur de l'Aufklarung, Kant a exerc� une influence consid�rable sur l'id�alisme allemand, la philosophie analytique, la ph�nom�nologie, la philosophie postmoderne, et la pens�e critique en g�n�ral. Son oeuvre, consid�rable et diverse dans ses int�r�ts, mais centr�e autour des trois Critiques, � savoir la Critique de la raison pure, la Critique de la raison pratique et la Critique de la facult� de juger, fait ainsi l'objet d'appropriations et d'interpr�tations successives et divergentesBiographieEmmanuel Kant na�t en 1724 � Konigsberg en Prusse-Orientale (actuellement Kaliningrad en Russie) dans un milieu modeste : son p�re, d'origine �cossaise, est sellier, et sa m�re, qu'il qualifie de tr�s intelligente, est fonci�rement pi�tiste. Il est le quatri�me d'une famille de onze enfants. Il fr�quente durant sept ans le Collegium Fridericianum, dirig� par Franz Albert Schultz, pasteur pi�tiste qui consid�re la pi�t� de l'�me comme sup�rieure au raisonnement.John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1836-1902) was a Scottish author, journalist and academic, known as a writer of school books.

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In the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation, and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the degree in which nature has a purpose, with respect to the highest interests of reason and enlightenment. The work profoundly influenced the artists, writers, and philosophers of the classical and romantic period, including Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. In addition, it has remained a landmark work in fields such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, the Frankfurt School, analytical aesthetics, and contemporary critical theory. Today it remains an essential work of philosophy, and required reading for all with an interest in aesthetics.

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