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KANT, IMMANUEL. Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch 1781. 8vo, (206 x 122 mm.) 8 1/8 x 4 3/4 in., contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards, spine gilt in six compartments, white calf gilt lettering-pieces, edges stained red, upper joint cracked, lower joint starting, corners and extremities rubbed, occasional light foxing, minor marginal dampstaining to first 20 and last 40 leaves, small marginal tear to Ff8, slip of modern heavy paper adhered to lower flyleaf. FIRST EDITION, gothic type, woodcut ornaments. PMM 226. Illegible inkstamp on front flyleaf.
"Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy... The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas... His methods dominated western philosophical thought throughout the nineteenth century, as they do today"--Printing and the Mind of Man.
"Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy... The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas... His methods dominated western philosophical thought throughout the nineteenth century, as they do today"--Printing and the Mind of Man.