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Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant · 1781, revised 1787

J. M. D. Meiklejohn's translation, 1855. 77 parts, about 207,178 words, 16 hours of reading. Source edition.

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Contents

  1. Preface to the First Edition 17812,885 words
  2. Preface to the Second Edition 17871 passage · 8,104 words
  3. I. Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge1 passage · 2,212 words
  4. IV. Of the Difference Between Analytical and Synthetical Judgements2,023 words
  5. VI. The Universal Problem of Pure Reason2,587 words
  6. § I. Introductory815 words
  7. § 2. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception691 words
  8. § 3. Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Space315 words
  9. § 4. Conclusions from the foregoing Conceptions947 words
  10. § 5. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception616 words
  11. § 7. Conclusions from the above Conceptions927 words
  12. § 8. Elucidation1,235 words
  13. § 9. General Remarks on Transcendental Æsthetic3,589 words
  14. I. Of Logic in General1 passage · 1,140 words
  15. II. Of Transcendental Logic535 words
  16. III. Of the Division of General Logic into Analytic and Dialectic1,027 words
  17. IV. Of the Division of Transcendental Logic into Transcendental Analytic and Dialectic426 words
  18. First Division. Transcendental Logic. Transcendental Analytic. § 1441 words
  19. Introductory § 3232 words
  20. Section I. Of the Logical Use of the Understanding in General § 4463 words
  21. Section II. Of the Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgements § 51,465 words
  22. Section III. Of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding, or Categories § 62,981 words
  23. Section I. Of the Principles of a Transcendental Deduction in general § 91,899 words
  24. Transition to the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories § 101,014 words
  25. Of the Possibility of a Conjunction of the manifold representations given by Sense § 11515 words
  26. Of the Originally Synthetical Unity of Apperception § 121,715 words
  27. What Objective Unity of Self-consciousness is § 14957 words
  28. Observation § 171,358 words
  29. Of the Application of the Categories to Objects of the Senses in general § 203,639 words
  30. Result of this Deduction of the Conceptions of the Understanding § 23831 words
  31. Book II: Analytic of Principles367 words
  32. INTRODUCTION. Of the Transcendental Faculty of judgement in General944 words
  33. Chapter I: Of the Schematism at of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding2,495 words
  34. Chapter II: System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding452 words
  35. Section I. Of the Supreme Principle of all Analytical Judgements760 words
  36. Section II. Of the Supreme Principle of all Synthetical Judgements1,000 words
  37. Section III. Systematic Representation of all Synthetical Principles of the Pure Understanding22,523 words
  38. Chapter III Of the Ground of the Division of all Objects into Phenomena and Noumena4,703 words
  39. Appendix7,357 words
  40. I. Of Transcendental Illusory Appearance1,245 words
  41. II. Of Pure Reason as the Seat of Transcendental Illusory Appearance2,526 words
  42. Transcendental Dialectic: Book I: of the Conceptions of Pure Reason401 words
  43. Section I: Of Ideas in General2,080 words
  44. Section II. Of Transcendental Ideas2,738 words
  45. Section III. System of Transcendental Ideas1,318 words
  46. Transcendental Dialectic: Book II: of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason522 words
  47. Chapter I: Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason7,265 words
  48. Chapter II: The Antinomy of Pure Reason596 words
  49. Section I. System of Cosmological Ideas2,671 words
  50. Section II. Antithetic of Pure Reason8,585 words
  51. Section III. Of the Interest of Reason in these Self-contradictions3,222 words
  52. Section IV. Of the necessity imposed upon Pure Reason of presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems2,003 words
  53. Section V. Sceptical Exposition of the Cosmological Problems presented in the four Transcendental Ideas1,253 words
  54. Section VI. Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of Pure Cosmological Dialectic1,379 words
  55. Section VII. Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem2,365 words
  56. Section VIII. Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in relation to the Cosmological Ideas1,674 words
  57. Section IX. Of the Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason with regard to the Cosmological Ideas11,382 words
  58. Section I. Of the Ideal in General795 words
  59. Section II. Of the Transcendental Ideal (Prototypon Trancendentale)2,716 words
  60. Section III. Of the Arguments employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being1,830 words
  61. Section IV. Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God2,470 words
  62. Section V. Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God3,972 words
  63. Section VI. Of the Impossibility of a Physico-Theological Proof2,416 words
  64. Section VII. Critique of all Theology based upon Speculative Principles of Reason2,493 words
  65. APPENDIX. Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason1 passage · 14,591 words
  66. II. Transcendental Doctrine of Method405 words
  67. Chapter I: The Discipline of Pure Reason867 words
  68. Section I. The Discipline of Pure Reason in the Sphere of Dogmatism6,060 words
  69. Section II. The Discipline of Pure Reason in Polemics7,207 words
  70. Section III. The Discipline of Pure Reason in Hypothesis2,936 words
  71. Section IV. The Discipline of Pure Reason in Relation to Proofs2,901 words
  72. Chapter II: The Canon of Pure Reason486 words
  73. Section I. Of the Ultimate End of the Pure Use of Reason1,528 words
  74. Section II. Of the Ideal of the Summum Bonum as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason3,692 words
  75. Section III. Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief2,750 words
  76. Chapter III: The Architectonic of Pure Reason4,608 words
  77. Chapter IV: The History of Pure Reason1,045 words