Critique of Pure Reason, Kant

Whoa.....I feel like I'm in over head with this. Kant's a tough read, I don't think this is the best one to ease into his work is it?

 

oooh good stuff, i must say any reading of kant is extreamly hard, he writes in an extreamly long winded way

just try and write it all down

the transendental logic, transendental aesthetic, are united through the transendental imagination to form the phenomenological world.

Now in order for the phenomenological world (the relm of appearences) there must be a logically conducive realm, which must be at least thinkable where the real forms exist the things in themselves (the 'ding an sich') this relm is the noumena. The noumena is the relm of pure reason, it is the conditioned, completely free relm, in opposition to the phenomena, the two relms never meet and never can meet, appart from their unity in the imagination (an important kantian concept)

this is the formation of pure logic, it is interesting because he is trying to appease both leibniz metaphysics and humian empiricism. but the critique is building up to the critique of practical reason which deals with his concept of moral phenomena and then finally the critique of judgement which is sort of the grand under pinning in that he trys to find the base for humanity(in the same way shopenhauer or nietzsche did) and he looks at it through aesthetics and the sublime.

anyway, i hope that helps, feel free to contact me if you want, tis always good to have someone to talk to about these things

 

I still think I'm in over my head, although that did help


is there something less overwhelming i could go for?

 

not really no, but if you really want to understand Kant then i suggest reading some of the commentrys that are online, he's a fasinating guy, but he's awful to read

The critique of pure reason is about the possibility of theoretical knowledge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_Of_Pure_Reason

try that, might be some help,

the important bits to grasp are the transendental logic and aesthetic, which combine to form the world of appearence (the world around us) the logic talks about the conditions for the possibility of the world, and the aesthetic talks about its limits, i.e space and time, kant reduces all of the world into these two base concepts

these are united to form the relm of experience(the world we see around us, the phenomenological world etc)

but for kant, everything needs a rational and conducive opposite, so for the relm of appearence to exist, there must be (even if in theory) a relm where the "real" things exist, and this is his concept of the noumina. Its just logically nessecery in his philosophy for the world around us to exist

hope that helps somewhat, i can break down the concepts more and write on them in a more detailed mannor if you wish

 

thanks spyder

i'm a smart girl, i think i can work through it, just gonna have to read over a few parts.