Ask Fakespot Chat questions about this productAlpha
Add detailed feedback
Message
Loading suggested questions
Suggested Questions
Suggested Questions
No suggested questions were found
Pros & Cons
Pros
This book must be read and reread often in hostile environments. The hard copy has a few errors, but very few, as you would expect in an extremely high-profile work. Hefty price tag, but worth it in my opinion.
Our tendency to view objects as ‘atoms’ has much to do with the ruination of our world. Jephcott is a glenn gould who as a translator went the extra mile just as gould, innocently enough, delivered the essence of the goldberg variations using the grea... Read More
The kritik is translated from chinese to chinglish. Guyer/wood seem to have translated kant to 18thcenturygermanlish. They say it captures the'systematic spirit' of kant's theses, not presenting his theses as scattershot visions.
Cons
It is misleading to group this audible recording with the cambridge cpr. It's not visually suitable for reading on a kindle.
The guyer-wood team show their insensitivity to english usage by translating the expression gewöhnliches schicksal as customary fate, which is un-idiomatic and totally absurd. This absurdity appears to be a direct consequence of guyer and wood's state... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Although i wish the book was sewn together rather than glued (as some others have stated), it's holding up solidly so far.
Through sensibility, then, we discover the things which are in the world, and through pure reason, we are able to construct var... Read More
I have a degree in philosophy and still extremely challenging material.
Good reference work and translation for kant scholars
Price
Hefty price tag, but worth it in my opinion.
Competitiveness
Compare descartes, who wrote that “the mind is really distinct from the body”.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
pure, difficult, audible, here and new. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 4.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 282 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 5 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have a degree in philosophy and still extremely challenging material
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It was fortyfive years ago that i first read kant’s critique of pure reason when we found a dusty copy in a seminary basement
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In the absence of as best i know any new publication of a metaphysics at the moment here is a review of kant’s critique
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I confine myself though to kant’s prefaces the second edition and his opening synopsis
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
One needs to have a good command of philosophy to read kant’s critique of pure reason
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If one can’t glide over the concepts and know what they mean kant is very difficult
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Now one needs to understand kant in his context—and i rate him here as if i were rating him back in 1787
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This could not be taken for granted in his time
Review Count History
Price History
Ask Fakespot Chat questions about this productAlpha
Add detailed feedback
Message
Loading suggested questions
Suggested Questions
Suggested Questions
No suggested questions were found