Herbert James Paton • Kant's Metaphysic of Experience - Vol II

Herbert James Paton • Kant's Metaphysic of Experience - Vol II

A Commentary on the first half of the Kritik der Reinen Vernunft in two Volumes - Volume Two
The standard work on this part of Kant's philosophy. In this remarkable exposition, Paton succeeds in meticulously deconstructing the text of the Critique of Pure Reason. Unlike previous commentators on Kant (Kemp Smith, Adickes & Vaihinger), who viewed the Critique as an inconsistent & disunified patchwork, Paton demonstrates its unity, coherence & clarity. The result is a text that encourages not only Kantian studies but also the reappraisal of Kant's standpoint for contemporary philosophy.

Schematism of the categories
Category & schema
Transcendental schemata
Significance of the schema
Principles of the understanding
Supreme principle of synthetic judgements
Principles of the understanding
Mathematical principles
Axioms of intuition
Anticipations of sense-perception
Analogies of experience
Principle of the analogies
Special character of the analogies
First analogy
Substance
Second analogy
Argument for causality
Causality & continuity
Third analogy
Postulates of empirical thought
Possibility
Actuality & necessity
Transcendental idealism
Empirical realism
Inner sense & self-knowledge
Self-knowledge & knowledge of objects
Transcendental use of concepts
Noumenon & transcendental object
Phenomena & noumena

This is a reproduction of the original book, first published in 1936 by George Allen & Unwin, London

Candler Press, Hardback, english, 510 pages