The Critique of Pure Reason

Arrived as advertised.

Better start from Descartes, Locke, Hume, and maybe then go for, slowly, bite at a time

Kant has his idiosyncrasies, but is brilliant and beyond my capabilities much of the time. I find Kant's view of "person" to be worth consideration.

Many people will advise that this not be your first read if you are new to the world of reasoning and rational thought. I am also one of them. This book is nearly incoherent to those who are unfamiliar with Kant's work, and for good reason. There's an entire history dedicated to how, and why, this book is a difficult read, by modern standards. I highly suggest you start elsewhere in your endeavors to understanding the nature of "A Critique of Pure Reason" than the book itself. That being said. If you are familiar with Kant and other philosopher's books on understanding rational thought, then this book is for you! It must be read carefully though as the book has very poor structure and Kant jumps around quite a bit. But if you can finally discern the logical arguments within the book, you'll find a very invigorating, insightful and thought provoking critique indeed!

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Wonderful edition of Max Müller's translation, easily the best of all English translations. Kant's work is must-read material for any philosopher!

Very hard read

It is a difficult enough read without having spaces missing between many of the words. I am going to get the paperback because it is just too distracting.

At several points I genuinely thought I was suffering from a stroke of some kind going through this. I was reading and 3 pages just tripped me up so hard I had a mini panic attack thinking something was wrong with me 'cause I was reading something, but it was just not registering. The sentence structure, and how he'll jump back and forth constantly at times just makes it for a hard read. From what I gathered you really should know more about his works and writing style before going into this. There's SO much, SOOOOO much terminology you'll need to remember and it's just shot at you like bam, bam, one after another, non-stop, and you have to reference/understand it as he goes on to explain something else and/or another process using it RIGHT away. It's a freaking ride. That being said, when you've read some of it, and you're actually capable of understanding what he's communicating in his way, it's pretty darn neat.

It's a scandal that Amazon is selling this book! Nobody picks up Kant as their bedtime reading. Kant's "Critique" is used by students and scholars for their academic research so how can they use a book which has NO pages numbers for the 2 prefaces and the introduction - together making about 60+ pages? The numbering starts with Book I "Transcendental Logic", so what went before doesn't count? Add to this the fact that there is no publisher, place of publication or date of publication and you have a volume that cannot be used by the target readership at all - you can only use to prop up a wonky table. This was a complete waste of money, but I am now alerted and won't make the same mistake again.