The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

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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*