Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
The Copernican revolution in philosophy. Kant argued that the mind doesn't passively receive reality but actively structures experience — and in doing so, he set the terms for all subsequent philosophy. The three Critiques remain the most formidable intellectual edifice since Aristotle.
Key works
- Critique of Pure Reason1781— The limits and conditions of knowledge
- Critique of Practical Reason1788— The moral law within
- Critique of Judgment1790— Beauty, purpose, the sublime