Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on texts and translation
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
- Table of Contents for the Critique
- From the Preface to the Second Edition
- From the Introduction
- From the Transcendental Aesthetic
- From the Transcendental Logic, Introduction
- From the Transcendental Logic, First Division, Analytic
- From the Transcendental Logic, Second Division, Dialectic
- From the Transcendental Doctrine of Method
- Index
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
From the Transcendental Logic, First Division, Analytic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on texts and translation
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
- Table of Contents for the Critique
- From the Preface to the Second Edition
- From the Introduction
- From the Transcendental Aesthetic
- From the Transcendental Logic, Introduction
- From the Transcendental Logic, First Division, Analytic
- From the Transcendental Logic, Second Division, Dialectic
- From the Transcendental Doctrine of Method
- Index
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Summary
By the analytic of concepts I do not mean the analysis of concepts, nor the ordinary procedure in philosophical investigation, of analyzing and clarifying (as regards their content) concepts that present themselves, but the as yet little attempted analysis of the faculty of understanding itself, so as to investigate the possibility of a priori concepts by seeking that possibility in the understanding alone (as the birthplace of those concepts), and by analyzing the pure use of those concepts (in general); for this is the proper business of transcendental philosophy; the rest is the logical treatment of concepts in philosophy in general. We will therefore pursue the pure concepts as far as their first seeds and predispositions in the human understanding, in which they lie ready until those concepts are, on the occasion of experience, finally developed, and are, by the very same understanding, exhibited in their purity, free of the empirical conditions attaching to them.
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- Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsWith Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, pp. 167 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997