ABSTRACT
This chapter and the next will consider the central themes of Kant’s theoretical philosophy as presented in the Critique of Pure Reason: this long chapter will discuss Kant’s positive view of the elements and limits of human knowledge, and the next, shorter chapter will discuss the criticism of the pretensions of traditional metaphysics that Kant makes on the basis of his own positive view. After first explaining how Kant conceives of the basic problem for theoretical philosophy as a problem about the possibility of “synthetic a priori judgment,” I will then review the series of steps he takes in the Critique in order to demonstrate that such cognition is indeed possible.
