Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.

In this episode, Dr. Hicks turns to Immanuel Kant and his 1787 second edition of Critique of Pure Reason, arguably the most foundationally influential work in modern philosophy. I focus on the Preface to that edition, famous for his conclusion that "I have therefore found it necessary to deny reason to make room for faith."

00:50 The text
01:23 The status of metaphysics
02:42 The status of logic
04:30 The status of mathematics and physics
10:20 "Metaphysics rests on concepts alone."
12:11 "Hitherto, it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform
to objects."
19:20 Conclusion: "...we can never transcend the limits of possible
experience..."
21:35 The value question
23:11 Space and time
26:26 We can have no knowledge of objects as things in themselves
28:50 Causality vs. free will
32:14 God, freedom, immortality
34:55 "I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith."
36:32 "All objections to morality and religion will be forever silenced."

Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great, Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College, England, and Jagiellonian University, Poland.

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