Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is generally accepted as the most influential work in “modern” Western philosophy. Coming at the end of the Enlightenment, and the opening of Romanticism, Kant’s great work offered a disciplined model for considering the great existential questions, such as whether or not God exists, whether there is an afterlife, a soul, etc. Reason, Kant argued, is the discipline by which such arguments, for or against, must proceed. Any argument that unduly relies on the theoretical, he reasoned, is highly suspect. Critique of Pure Reason offers provides a bridge between the traditional, religious orientation and ...
