Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Immanuel Kant] *THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT* BY A. D. LINDSAY, M.A. FELLOW AND TUTOR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK, LTD. 35 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C., & EDINBURGH NEW YORK: DODGE PUBLISHING CO. *FOREWORD* There is a story that Schopenhauer used to begin his lectures on Kant by saying: "Let no one _tell_ you what is contained in the _Critique of Pure Reason_." The writer of this little book hopes that no one will imagine that he has disregarded this warning. There are no short-cuts to the understanding of a great philosopher, and the only way to appreciate the greatness of a philosophic system is to study the philosopher’s own writings. All that the writer of a book like this can hope to do is to persuade others to undertake that study by interesting them in the problems with which it deals, and by offering a few suggestions which may help to an understanding of it. I have said nothing about the numerous other works which Kant wrote. For the three _Critiques_ contain his system, and the understanding of that is all-important. *CONTENTS* CHAP. I. THE IDEA OF CRITICISM II. KANT’S STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM. SYNTHETIC A PRIORI JUDGMENTS III. KANT’S IDEALISM. TIME AND SPACE IV. THE CATEGORIES AND THE PRINCIPLES OF PURE UNDERSTANDING V. THE ANTINOMIES AND CRITICISM OF THE PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD VI. KANT’S MORAL THEORY VII. THE "CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT" BIBLIOGRAPHY *THE PHILOSOPHY OF KANT* *CHAPTER I* *THE IDEA OF CRITICISM*