Saturday, 11 May 2013

Critique of Pure Reason

Kant's first critique is not an easy read. In fact, after studying the content on and off through various secondary sources for approximately two years, I'm now getting round to actually reading it first hand. Compared to the very first experience of the text, I'm happy to say it has been making some sense finally, which for the large part I need to credit Professor Dan Robinson of Oxford University, whose published Kant lectures have sustained repeated playback, both before bedtime and on the bus to work.

In the search for supporting information to help with my understanding, the quality of (freely available) written material on the subject seemed wanting, not because it was 'wrong' in any way, but it certainly didn't provide the necessary, simple stepping stones needed to get to grips with the work's core concepts. 

In correspondence to Markus Herz, Kant confessed a mania for systematising, which I share (perhaps to a lesser degree), and this shared mania has directed me to produce my own humble attempt to encapsulate the ideas in picture form. This is version 1 - I expect updates to be regular (I'm only at page 80) as I progress through the work, and will publish later tweaked copies, those that I find sufficiently concise and illuminative.


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