Critique of Pure Reason

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Introduction
Concepts of Pure Reason" and "On the Dialectical Inferences
Pure Reason," in which Kant explains how pure reason generates ideas
of metaphysical entities such as the soul, the world as a whole, and God
and then attempts to prove the reality of those ideas by patterns of inference which are within the limits of human sensibility
those limits. But it should be noted that combination of the
twofold division of the "Transcendental Analytic" into the of
Concepts" and "Analytic of Principles" with the main part of the
Dialectic, the "Dialectical Inferences of Pure Reason," replicates the
traditional division of logic textbooks into three sections on concepts,
judgments, and inferences:!O Kant uses this structure to argue the concepts of pure understanding, when to the forms give
rise to sound principles of judgment, which constitute the heart of his
critical metaphysics, but that inferences of pure reason performed
out respect to the limits of sensibility give rise only to metaphysical illusion. The treatment of inferences is in turn into
sections, "The Paralogisms of Pure Reason," "The Antinomy of Pure
Reason," and "The Ideal of Pure Reason," which expose metaphysically
fallacious arguments about the nature of the soul, about the size and origin of the world as a whole, about the existence of God, respectively.
These divisions are also derived from Kant's predecessors: Wolff and
Baumgarten divided metaphysics into "general metaphysics," or "ontology," and "special metaphysics," in turn divided into "rational psychology," "rational cosmology," and "rational theology." Kant replaces their
"ontology" with the constructive doctrine of his own "Transcendental
Analytic" (see A 2471 B 303), and then presents his criticism of dogmatic
metaphysics based on pure reason alone by demolishing the special
metaphysics of rational psychology, cosmology, and theology.
Finally, Kant divides the "Doctrine of Method," in which he reflects
on the consequences of his demolition of traditional metaphysics and
reconstruction of some parts of into four chapters, the "Discipline,"
the "Canon," the "Architectonic," and the "History of Pure Reason.""
The first two of these sections are much more detailed the last
two. In the "Discipline of Pure Reason," Kant provides an extended
contrast between the nature of mathematical proof and philosophical
argument, and offers important commentary on his own new critical or
"transcendental" method. In the "Canon of Pure Reason," he prepares
the way for his subsequent moral philosophy by contrasting the method
of theoretical philosophy to that of practical philosophy, and giving the
first outline of the argument that runs through all three critiques,
namely that practical reason can justify metaphysical beliefs God
and the freedom and immortality of tlle human soul although theoretical reason can never yield knowledge of such things. The last two parts of
the "Doctrine of Method," the "Architectonic of Pure Reason" and the

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