Critique of Pure Reason

Chapter Overview

• Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation

• Chapter 2: Before building a metaphysical system, philosophers must examine where our mind’s mental materials come from and what they are like.

• Chapter 3: To prevent the danger of metaphysical dogmatism, philosophers need to carry out a critique of pure reason.

• Chapter 4: By not steering clear of dogmatism, philosophy ends up fostering the growth of skepticism.

• Chapter 5: Since both religion and science rely on metaphysical ideas, skepticism threatens them both.

• Chapter 6: If reason can’t give us a priori knowledge, then even our confidence in mathematics collapses.

• Chapter 7: A priori knowledge is not inborn knowledge; it’s knowledge the mind creates through its own internal workings.

• Chapter 8: The mind consists of three core faculties – sensibility, understanding, and reason.

• Chapter 9: To turn sense data into meaningful information, the mind requires built-in ways of arranging it.

• Chapter 10: Time and space are pure forms of sensibility that give the mind ready-made templates to arrange sensory input.

• Chapter 11: Our minds are also equipped with templates for making sense of and reasoning about the world.

• Chapter 12: The mind can draw on these templates to generate a priori concepts and knowledge.

• Chapter 13: From what we can tell, the categories of understanding describe only our experience of the world, not the world as it is in itself.

• Chapter 14: We are unable to know anything about reality as it is in itself – not even whether it exists in space and time.

• Chapter 15: Reason must not overstep its bounds by speculating metaphysically about reality as it exists in itself.