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  <title><![CDATA[Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science with Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz 2/27/1772]]></title>
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The Paul Carus translation, extensively revised by Ellington, of the introduction Kant published in 1783 to help readers understand his 1781 Critique of Pure Reason. Also included is a 1772 letter he wrote to his friend Herz explaining how he was about to embark on the Critical Philosophy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) 

Annotation
This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason. 

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    <body><![CDATA[Kant was a pretty smart guy and maybe I'm not so smart, but I can't understand what he thought he accomplished with the <em>Prolegomena</em>.  Kant's stated purpose was to refute Hume, who had cast doubt on the concept of causation by pointing out that we only observe one event following another and have no ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13575368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kant is difficult.  While the goal of Kant's philosophizing, to establish the requirements of scientific metaphysics, may or may not appeal to you, the way that he constructs the argument and his suppositions about subjects, objects, nature, and how we come to knowledge are central to a huge amount ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72855606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't get Kant, and I've never derived any pleasure from reading him.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WHAT?!?!?!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This text is essentially a concise summary of the work accomplished by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, in which the great thinker answers the following: 1)How is pure mathematics possible? 2) How is pure natural science possible? 3)How is metaphysics in general possible? 4) How is metaphysics a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34785690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a tough cookie - but it is under 100 pages so it travels easy. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the better of the two translations I read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How do mathematics, science, and philosophy, as disciplines, relate to one another?  If you're not kept up at night wondering how synthetic a priori propositions are possible, this isn't the book for you.  <br/><br/>Challenging to read, I'm nibbling away, one section a day.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous to give the best philosopher ever a 3, but it just wasn't all that enthralling, even though he wrote it to be an improvement in readability to the Critique.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If nothing else, at least I can discuss categorical imperatives at a cocktail party. Although miserable while reading this, in retrospect I find his view on moral decision making useful. ]]></body>
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