Kant Selections

KANT SELECTIONS EDITED BY THEODORE MEYER GREENE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS NEW TORE CHICAGO ATLANTA COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without tite permission of Charles Scribners Sons The following passages from Kant writings kave been selected from The Cri-, ique of Pure Reason, translated by Max Mailer, and published by the Macmillan Company, The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals and The Critique of Practical Reason, translated by T. K. Abbott under the title of Kants u Theory of Ethics published by Longmans, Green and Co. and the Kritik of Judgment, translated by J. H. Bernard and published by the Macmilkn Co. The Editor wishes hereby to thank the owners and publishers of these volumes for their kind permission to use the passages selected. So far as possible, omissions have been indicated in the text, together with a reference, for each omission, to the page in the Translations of Max Muller, second edition, revised, 1927, T. K. Abbott Sixth Edition 1909 and J. H. Bernard second edition, revised, 1914 on which the omitted passages may be found. Where more has been omitted than retained, on the other hand, the reference given has been to the page or pages on which the selected passage appears. These page references have been included in order to enable the student to relate any of the passages appearing in this volume to the complete translated text from which they were taken. In all tne pace references, the letters M., A., and B. refer respectively to the trans lations by MuJler, Abbott, andBernard mentioned above. Omissions of the trans lators footnotes have not been indicated. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THEODORE MEYER GREENE xvii CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 1 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 8 INTRODUCTION I. Of the Difference between Pare and Empirical Knowledge 26 II. We are in Possession of certain Cognitions a priori, and even the ordinary Understanding is never without them 28 III. Philosophy requires a Science to determine the Pos sibility, the Principles, and the Extent of all Cogni tions a priori 30 IV. Of the Distinction between Analytical and Syn thetical Judgments S3 V. In all Theoretical Sciences of Reason Synthetical Judgments a priori are contained as Principles. ... 36 VI. The General Problem of Pure Reason 39 TRANSCENDENTAL AESTHETIC INTRODUCTION. 43 FIRST SECTION. OF SPACE Metaphysical Exposition of Space 45 Transcendental Exposition of Space 47 Conclusions from the Foregoing Concepts 48 SECOND SECTION. OF TIME Metaphysical Exposition of Time 50 Transcendental Exposition of Time -. . . 51 Conclusions from the Foregoing Concepts 52 GENERAL CONCLUSION 55 TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC INTRODUCTION I. Of Logic in General 56 II. Of Transcendental Logic 58 vii i CONTENTS IV. Of the Division of Transcendental i ogic into Tran scendental Analytic and Dialectic 60 TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC BOOK I. ANALYTIC OF CONCEPTS 61 Chapter I. Method of Discovering All Pure Concepts of the Understanding I. Of the Logical Use of the Understanding in General. 62 II. Of the Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgments 63 HI. Of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding, or of the Categories 63 Chapter II. Of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding Sec.I. Of the Principles of a Transcendental De duction in General 67 Transition to a Transcendental Deduction of the Categories 70 Sec. II. Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Con cepts of the Understanding 73 I. Of the Possibility of Connecting in General 73 II. Connection involves, subjectively, a threefold Synthesis. 1. Of the Synthesis of Apprehension in Intuition 74 2. Of the Synthesis of Reproduc tion in Imagination 75 3. Of the Synthesis of Recognition in Concepts 76 III IV...