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1724-1804
 
Kant's project in the Critique of Pure Reason
The main topic of the Critique of Pure Reason is the possibility of metaphysics, understood in a specific way. Kant defines metaphysics in terms of “the cognitions after which reason might strive independently of all experience,” and his goal in the book is to reach a “decision about the possibility or impossibility of a metaphysics in general, and the determination of its sources, as well as its extent and boundaries, all, however, from principles”. Thus metaphysics for Kant concerns a priori knowledge, or knowledge whose justification does not depend on experience; and he associates a priori knowledge with reason. The project of the Critique is to examine whether, how, and to what extent human reason is capable of a priori knowledge. (<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/">Source</a>)
 
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"It always remains a scandal of philosophy and universal human reason that the existence of things outside us ... should have to be assumed merely on faith, and that if it occurs to anyone to doubt it, we should be unable to answer him with a satisfactory proof"
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"Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must submit. Religion through its holiness and legislation through its majesty commonly seek to exempt themselves from it. But in this way they excite a just suspicion against themselves, and cannot lay claim to that unfeigned respect that reason grants only to that which has been able to withstand its free and public examination."
 
 
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For Kant, the phenomena of human experience depend on both the sensory data that we receive passively through sensibility and the way our mind actively processes this data according to its own a priori rules. These rules supply the general framework in which the sensible world and all the objects (or phenomena) in it appear to us. So the sensible world and its phenomena are not entirely independent of the human mind, which contributes its basic structure. (<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/">Source</a>)

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	Zettel presenta: Maurizio Ferraris - Kant e l`illuminismo
	Keywords	Enlightenment Aesthetics Ethics Anthropology Metaphysics Skepticism Teleology Empirical Rationalist German idealism a priori intuitions of sensibility a priori concepts of the understanding
	Major works	Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781) Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics (1783) Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, 1788) Metaphysics of Morals (Die Metaphysik der Sitten, 1797) Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790) Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786) An Inquiry into the Distinctness of the Fundamental Principles of Natural Theology and Morals (Untersuchung über die Deutlichkeit der Grundsätze der natürlichen Theologie und der Moral - 1764)
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