Kant's Critical Philosophy - Exam Revision Sheet

1. 📌 Essentials

• ant philosophy transitions from pre-critical to post-critical periods, emphasizing the limits of human reason.
• Three Critiques: Pure Reason (knowledge), Practical Reason (morality), Judgment (aesthetics).
• Copernican Revolution: Knowledge conforms to the subject’s structures, not just the object.
• Phenomena: The world as experienced; Noumena: Things-in-themselves, unknowable.
• Judgments: Analytic a priori (necessary, no knowledge gain), Synthetic a priori (necessary, expands knowledge), Synthetic a posteriori (empirical).
• Forms of Sensibility: Space (external), Time (internal).
• Categories: 12 pure concepts organizing experience.
• Ideas of Reason: Soul, world, God; lead to illusions if misused.
• "I think": Unifies representations; not a substance.
• Metaphysics: Regulative, guiding inquiry beyond experience.

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