Critique of Pure Reason

Summary

Immanuel Kant's «Critique of Pure Reason» is a foundational work in which the author explores the possibilities and limits of human knowledge. Kant divides all knowledge into a priori (independent of experience) and a posteriori (based on experience). He introduces the concept of the «thing-in-itself», which exists independently of our perception, and «phenomena», which we perceive. Kant argues that our mind structures experience through categories such as space and time, which are a priori forms of sensibility. The main goal of the book is to show that while we cannot know the «thing-in-itself», we can explore the structure of our own mind and its capacity for knowledge.