"The Critique of Pure Reason"

Paper Summary:

This paper gives an account of Kant's arguments in the three analogies of "The Critique of Pure Reason"-- causal relations, simultaneity and the holistic community. It concludes that his argument that everything interacts with everything else is essentially plausible.

From the Paper:

"In the third analogy Kant writes that the possibility of representing things as simultaneous requires these things to be represented as being in causal interaction with one another. He also writes, in the first analogy, that our apprehension of the world (the manifold of appearances) is successive and so it seems that we cannot apprehend any appearances as co-existent. If the appearances we apprehend were not ordered in time, and ordered in a way based upon the persistence of substance, we would end up with a 'play of representations' - a disordered jumble of appearances none of which are related to any other and each of which being apprehended randomly by the understanding, which has no principle by which to order its apprehension of the world any other way."

More papers on "The Critique of Pure Reason":

• Book Review # 97640 : "Critique Of Pure Reason"
• Essay # 58956 : "Kant on the Reality of Space"
• Essay # 46638 : "The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant"

APA Citation:

MLA Citation: