Kant's Critique Of Pure Knowledge Essay

Kant published the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. Kant’s motive was to establish the restrictions of pure reason which means that he wants to know what reason alone without the use of guessing. Kant was optimistic by Hume’s disbelief to doubt the metaphysics existence. Kant is still making a difference with the comparison to priori and posteriori knowledge. Between the analytic and synthetic judgments, posteriori knowledge is the knowledge from experience and also additional knowledge is knowledge that we have that has nothing to do with experience, the opposite of posteriori. Posteriori knowledge has to do with synthetic judgments and a priori knowledge has to do with analytic judgments. Kant argues that mathematics and the principles of science contain synthetic a priori knowledge. ‘For …show more content…
By finding the answers to the metaphysical unanswered questions not in the external concept but rather in analysis of human reason, Kant provides plain restrictions for metaphysical speculation and retain a sagacious, experiential approach to knowledge of the outside world. Although the distinctions are similar to Kant’s a priori–a posteriori distinction and his synthetic–analytic comparison have been made by different thinkers such as Hume. Kant was the first to apply two such different to generate a third category for knowledge. Hume, for an example, does not make a difference between what Kant describes the analytic and the a priori and what he describes as the synthetic and the a posteriori, so that, for Hume, all synthetic judgments are necessarily a posteriori. Due to that, only a priori truths have essential qualities of being universal and extremely necessary, the general truths about reality is opposed to meticulous explanation about unconnected events that had to be a