Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics : With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

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Summary: The "Critique of Pure Reason" ...refined and clarified!!
Review: ...Kant himself wrote this to clarify the excruciatingly convoluted paragraphs of the agonizing "Critique". This is Kant's groundbreaking Transcendental Idealism written in his own words as clearly and concisely as possible! to all you philosophy enthusiasts...ENJOY!

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Summary: If the Critique scares the bejeezus out of you...
Review: For the serious student of Philosophy this work should just serve as a bridge into the justifiably intimidating Critique of Pure Reason. That being said,

For those who are gunshy about the first critique, this book is an extremely good introduction to Kant's Metaphysics. It does not give the depth of full critique but gives you the general thrust of the direction that he is going in his Philosophical activity and introduces the concepts that were essential to the critique. (the transcendental ego of apperception, the antinomies of reason, etc.) In this smaller production Kant is much less intimidating. His style is still fairly circuitous, and he is virtually incapable of sussinctly summarizing himself, but take it for what you will.

also, I'm not sure what the guy beneath me is talking about. I'm really not. But it should be noted that Kant's variety of idealism should be called critical idealism rather than subjective idealism. The latter is misleading and fails to make the distinction between Kant's philosophy and that of Berkley or Descartes.

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Summary: Kant wrote "Cliff's Notes" to his own Critique
Review: READ THIS BEFORE THE CRITIQUE! In the Prolegomena, Kant's express purpose is to summarize his maddening "Critique of Pure Reason" and it is immensely helpful. Whereas the "Critique" shows no mercy, the "Prolegomena" is very accessible and friendly to a first timer. It is still difficult, but this is to be expected considering the nature of Kant's project. If you do go on to the "Critique" after this work, you should have a pretty good map of the terrain. PS. The previous guy is right, the first guy is lost in space.