Real; _real_.
Reich; _kingdom_.
Reiz; _charm_.
Rührung; _emotion_.
Schein; _illusion_.
Schmerz; _grief_.
Schön; _beautiful_.
Schranke; _limit_.
Schwärmerei; _fanaticism_.
Seele; _soul_.
Ueberreden; _to persuade_.
Ueberschwänglich; _transcendent_.
Ueberzeugen; _to convince_.
Unlust; _pain_.
Urtheil; _judgement_.
Urtheilskraft; _Judgement_.
Verbindung; _combination_.
Vergnügen; _gratification_.
Verknüpfung; _connexion_.
Vermögen; _faculty_.
Vernunft; _Reason_.
Vernünftelei; _sophistry_ or _subtlety_.
Verstand; _Understanding_.
Vorstellung; _representation_.
Wahrnehmung; _perception_.
Wesen; _being_.
Willkühr; _elective will_.
Wirklich; _actual_.
Wohlgefallen; _satisfaction_.
Zufriedenheit; _contentment_.
Zweck; _purpose_.
Zweckmässig; _purposive_.
Zweckverbindung; _purposive combination_, etc.
PREFACE
We may call the faculty of cognition from principles _a priori_, _pure
Reason_, and the inquiry into its possibility and bounds generally the
Critique of pure Reason, although by this faculty we only understand
Reason in its theoretical employment, as it appears under that name
in the former work; without wishing to inquire into its faculty, as
practical Reason, according to its special principles. That [Critique]
goes merely into our faculty of knowing things _a priori_, and busies
itself therefore only with the _cognitive faculty_ to the exclusion
of the feeling of pleasure and pain and the faculty of desire; and of
the cognitive faculties it only concerns itself with _Understanding_,
according to its principles _a priori_, to the exclusion of _Judgement_
and _Reason_ (as faculties alike belonging to theoretical cognition),
because it is found in the sequel that no other cognitive faculty but
the Understanding can furnish constitutive principles of cognition _a
priori_. The Critique, then, which sifts them all, as regards the share
which each of the other faculties might pretend to have in the clear
possession of knowledge from its own peculiar root, leaves nothing but
what the _Understanding_ prescribes _a priori_ as law for nature as
the complex of phenomena (whose form also is given _a priori_). It
relegates all other pure concepts under Ideas, which are transcendent
for our theoretical faculty of cognition, but are not therefore useless
or to be dispensed with. For they serve as regulative principles;
partly to check the dangerous pretensions of Understanding, as if
(because it can furnish _a priori_ the conditions of the possibility
of all things which it can know) it had thereby confined within
these bounds the possibility of all things in general; and partly to
lead it to the consideration of nature according to a principle of
completeness, although it can never attain to this, and thus to further
the final design of all knowledge.
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