The Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Martin Wilson

Published in 1797, the Critique of Pure Reason is considered to be one of the foremost philosophical works ever written. In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant explores the foundation of human knowledge and its limits, as well as man's ability to engage in metaphysics.

The Critique builds on the works of famous philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume, but Kant takes their ideas further. Kant delves into new ideas concerning time and space and how human knowledge relates to cause and effect. Kant's ideas were unique for his time in that he believed that human knowledge did not conform to objects but that objects conformed to human knowledge. It was also Kant's view that humans were born with some prior knowledge that might also be termed intuition and that additional knowledge was gained through life experience.

Born in 1724, Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is considered by many to be an important contributor to modern philosophical thought. The basics of Kant's beliefs were that the human mind was responsible for creating the structure of one's experiences.

Public Domain (P)2017 A.R.N. Publications

Original Work is a Masterpiece and Narration is Good

This is a fabulous treatise on what we would today call cognitive science. If only Kant could see today the progress we’ve made in physics and neuroscience.

To properly comprehend this book it’s probably best to actually read it so that you can go at your own pace and meditate when you need to. I listened to this on my commute to work and found myself having to pause or rewind pretty frequently which is healthy when listening to a complicated work such as this but is also tedious.

I felt like the narrator read the book a little faster than I could process the content so I had to slow it down to .9 speed.

A true heavyweight philosophical bombshell

Cognition, transcendentalism, logical deduction, a priori and empirical exploration. This book has it all. Kant leaves nothing on the table with a disk philosophical journey into the understanding and knowable

Top ten so far

This book definitely stretched my brain. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in expanding their reasoning faculties.

Painful

After listening to about three chapters, I simply couldn’t take the narrator’s voice any longer. The subject matter is difficult enough on its own merit without having to listen to this guy. read it with absolute zero tonal inflection or any sort of emotion whatsoever. I’m returning the book to Audible.

Excellent book, Wrong medium

This book is exceptional. However, I strongly recommend that those reading for the first time and who are not well-versed in old English do not use audio. The playful language, definition of terms, and stacked qualifiers in many of the key points make it difficult to fully comprehend Kant's work in this medium. Reading this book successfully requires a visual medium, where complex sentences can be read multiple times and revisited as the ideas build, with a writing utensil notebook nearby. Not for the casual reader.