Critique of pure reason / Immanuel Kant ; translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn.

Intro -- Title Page -- DOVER PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSICS -- Copyright Page -- KANT'S PREFACE - TO THE FIRST EDITION (1781) -- Table of Contents -- CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON - INTRODUCTION -- TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS -- PART FIRST TRANSCENDENTAL ÆSTHETIC -- Section I.-Of Space -- Section II.-Of Time -- PART SECOND TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC -- I.-OF LOGIC IN GENERAL -- II.-OF TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC -- III.-OF THE DIVISION OF GENERAL LOGIC INTO ANALYTIC AND DIALECTIC -- IV.-OF THE DIVISION OF TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC INTO TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC AND DIALECTIC -- FIRST DIVISION - TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC -- BOOK 1 - ANALYTIC OF CONCEPTIONS -- CHAPTER I - Of the Transcendental Clue to the Discovery of All Pure Conceptions of the Understanding -- CHAPTER II - Of the Deduction of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding -- BOOK II - ANALYTIC OF PRINCIPLES -- CHAPTER I - Of the Schematism of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding -- CHAPTER II - System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding -- CHAPTER III - Of the Ground of the Division of all Objects into Phenomena and Noumena -- SECOND DIVISION -- TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC -- I. Of Transcendental Illusory Appearance -- II. Of Pure Reason as the Seat of the Transcendental Illusory Appearance -- BOOK I - OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF PURE REASON -- Sec. I.-Of Ideas in General. -- Sec. II.-Of Transcendental Ideas -- Sec. III.-System of Transcendental Ideas -- BOOK II - OF THE DIALECTICAL PROCEDURE OF PURE REASON -- CHAPTER I - Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason -- Refutation of the Argument of Mendelssohn for the Substantiality or Permanence of the Soul -- Conclusion of the Solution of the Psychological Paralogism -- General Remark.-On the Transition from Rational Psychology to Cosmology -- CHAPTER II - The Antinomy of Pure Reason -- Sec. I.-System of Cosmological Ideas -- Sec. II.-Antithetic of Pure Reason -- Sec. III.-Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-contradictions -- Sec. IV.-Of the necessity imposed upon Pure Reason of presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems -- Sec. V.-Sceptical Exposition of the Cosmological Problems presented in the four Transcendental Ideas -- Sec. VI.-Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of Pure Cosmological Dialectic -- Sec. VII.-Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem -- Sec. VIII.-Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in relation to the Cosmological Ideas -- Sec. IX.-Of the Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason with Regard to the Cosmological Ideas -- CHAPTER III - The Ideal of Pure Reason -- Sec. I.-Of the Ideal in General -- Sec. II.-Of the Transcendental Ideal-Prototypon Transcen-dentale -- Sec. III.-Of the Arguments employed by Speculative Reason to prove a Supreme Being's Existence -- Sec. IV.-Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God -- Sec. V.-Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God -- Sec. VI.-Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof -- Sec. VII.-Critique of all Theology based upon Speculative Principles of Reason -- APPENDIX - The Transcendental Dialectic Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason -- TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF METHOD - INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I - The Discipline of Pure Reason -- Section I.-The Discipline of Pure Reason in the sphere of Dogmatism -- Section II.-The Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics -- Section III.-The Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis -- Section IV.-The Discipline of Pure Reason in relation to Proofs -- CHAPTER II - The Canon of Pure Reason -- Section I.-Of the Ultimate End of the Pure Use of Reason -- Section II.-Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason -- Section III.-Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief -- CHAPTER III - The Architectonic of Pure Reason -- CHAPTER IV - The History of Pure Reason -- A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST -- .

A cornerstone book of Western philosophy, Kant's most famous work attempts to reconcile rationalism and empiricism. He claims that although our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises out of experience..