The Critique of Pure Reason: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Critique of Pure Reason, credited to Immanuel Kant, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age. Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason as an attempt to bridge the gap between rationalism (there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience) and empiricism (sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge) and, in particular, to counter the radical empiricism of David Hume (our beliefs are purely the result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences). Using the methods of science, Kant demonstrates that though each mind may, indeed, create its own universe, those universes are guided by certain common laws, which are rationally discernable. (Summary by M.L. Cohen)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Critique of Pure Reason
• Author credits: Immanuel Kant
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 26:09:21

Catalogue topics

• epistemology
• metaphysics
• critical philosophy
• critical system
• first critique
• transcendental idealism
• german idealism
• german philosophy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 01 - The Critique of Pure Reason — 20:05
2. 02 - Preface to the Second Edition, 1787 — 53:27
3. 03 - Introduction — 53:20
4. 04 - Trancendental Aesthetic - Introductory - Of Space — 20:22
5. 05 -Transcendental Doctrine of Elements--Time — 44:04
6. 06 - Transcendental Logic — 26:15
7. 07 - Transcendental Analytic — 47:18
8. 08 - Deduction of the Pure Conceptions — 17:20
9. 09 - Transcendental Deduction of the pure Conceptions of the Understanding. SS 11 — 46:22
10. 10 - Application of the Categories to Objects of the Senses — 48:47
11. 11 - Analytic of Principles / Schematism — 45:15
12. 12 - System of All Principles of the Pure Understanding — 15:12
13. 13 - Systematic Representation of All Synthetical Principles/1st Analogy — 1:24:59
14. 14 - Second Analogy — 36:48
15. 15 - Third Analogy — 14:48
16. 16 - The Postulates of Empirical Thought — 43:09
17. 17 - Division of All Objects into Phenomena and Noumena — 34:56
18. 18 - Appendix: Of the equivocal Nature of Amphiboly — 12:26
19. 19 - Remark on the Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflections — 55:52
20. 20 - Transcendental Dialectic: Introduction — 9:08
21. 21 - Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason — 1:14:19
22. 22 - Of the Dialectical Procedure of Pure Reason — 4:49
23. 23 - Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason — 49:09
24. 24 - The Antinomy of Pure Reason — 26:53

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