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Part of a series on Immanuel Kant People George Berkeley
René Descartes · Fichte
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
G.W.F. Hegel · David Hume
Arthur Schopenhauer
Baruch Spinoza · African Spir
Johannes TetensMajor works Critique of Pure Reason
Prolegomena
What Is Enlightenment?
Critique of Practical Reason
Critique of Judgement
Metaphysics of MoralsKantianism and
deontological ethicsTranscendental idealism
Analytic-synthetic distinction
Critical philosophy
Sapere aude · Schema
A priori ... a posteriori
Noumenon · Categories
Categorical imperative
Hypothetical imperative
"Kingdom of Ends"
Political philosophyRelated topics German idealism
Schopenhauer's criticism
Neo-KantianismAttributed to Immanuel Kant, the critical philosophy movement sees the primary task of philosophy as criticism rather than justification of knowledge; criticism, for Kant, meant judging as to the possibilities of knowledge before advancing to knowledge itself (from the Greek kritike (techne), or "art of judgment"). The initial, and perhaps even sole task of philosophers, according to this view, is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories—including those about philosophy itself—to critical review, and measure their validity by how well they withstand criticism.
"Critical philosophy" is also used as just another name for Kant's philosophy itself. Kant said that philosophy's proper enquiry is not about what is out there in reality, but rather about the character and foundations of experience itself. We must first judge how human reason works, and within what limits, so that we can afterwards correctly apply it to sense experience and determine whether it can be applied at all to metaphysical objects.
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