{"product_id":"basic-writings-of-kant-isbn-9780375757334","title":"Basic Writings of Kant","description":"\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Allen W. Wood\u003cbr\u003eWith translations by F. Max Müller and Thomas K. Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the relationship between the human mind and all that it encounters and remain the most important influence on our concept of knowledge. As renowned Kant scholar Allen W. Wood writes in his Introduction, Kant “virtually laid the foundation for the way people in the last two centuries have confronted such widely differing subjects as the experience of beauty and the meaning of human history.” Edited and compiled by Dr. Wood, \u003ci\u003eBasic Writings of Kant \u003c\/i\u003estands as a comprehensive summary of Kant’s contributions to modern thought, and gathers together the most respected translations of Kant’s key moral and political writings.\u003cb\u003eAllen W. Wood\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eKant’s Rational Theology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKant’s Ethical Thought\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Paul Guyer, general editor of the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Edition of the Works of Kant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Transcendental Doctrine of Elements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Part.\u003cbr\u003eTranscendental Aesthetic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever the process and the means may be by which knowledge reaches its objects, there is one that reaches them directly, and forms the ultimate material of all thought, viz. intuition (Anschauung). This is possible only when the object is given, and the object can be given only (to human beings at least) through a certain affection of the mind (Gemüth).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis faculty (receptivity) of receiving representations (Vorstellungen), according to the manner in which we are affected by objects, is called sensibility (Sinnlichkeit).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObjects therefore are given to us through our sensibility. Sensibility alone supplies us with intuitions (Anschauungen). These intuitions become thought through the understanding (Verstand), and hence arise conceptions (Begriffe). All thought therefore must, directly or indirectly, go back to intuitions (Anschauungen), i.e. to our sensibility, because in no other way can objects be given to us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe effect produced by an object upon the faculty of representation (Vorstellungsfähigkeit), so far as we are affected by it, is called sensation (Empfindung). An intuition (Anschauung) of an object, by means of sensation, is called empirical. The undefined object of such an empirical intuition is called phenomenon (Erscheinung).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a phenomenon I call that which corresponds to the sensation its matter; but that which causes the manifold matter of the phenomenon to be perceived as arranged in a certain order, I call its form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow it is clear that it cannot be sensation again through which sensations are arranged and placed in certain forms. The matter only of all phenomena is given us a posteriori; but their form must be ready for them in the mind (Gemüth) a priori, and must therefore be capable of being considered as separate from all sensations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI call all representations in which there is nothing that belongs to sensation, pure (in a transcendental sense). The pure form therefore of all sensuous intuitions, that form in which the manifold elements of the phenomena are seen in a certain order, must be found in the mind a priori. And this pure form of sensibility may be called the pure intuition (Anschauung).","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303638552805,"sku":"NP9780375757334","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375757334.jpg?v=1767722180","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/basic-writings-of-kant-isbn-9780375757334","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}