ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides both beginning and advanced students of Immanuel Kant with understandable explanations of the Critique’s central arguments. It examines the three main parts of the Critique in order: the Transcendental Aesthetic, Transcendental Analytic, and the Transcendental Dialectic. The book discusses some of the arguments in the Critique of Practical Reason, so readers can get a sense of how Kant addresses these questions in his later work. It concludes with a brief consideration of Kant’s importance: how the Copernican revolution in philosophy—the idea that the world must conform to our representation of it, rather than vice versa—has not only affected the history of the discipline but changed our conception of ourselves more generally. At times, the density of Kant’s writing can intimidate even the most experienced reader of philosophy.
