The third Critique, then, enforces the lesson of the first, that knowledge is the work of individual finite minds, trying to understand elements in a whole that transcends the limits of their experience, pushing back the spatial and temporal limits which confine each individual, but never removing them altogether. The critical philosophy teaches the impossibility of absolute knowledge, but it does so not by suggesting general scepticism of all knowledge, but by enforcing the validity of scientific knowledge within its own limits.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TRANSLATIONS
There are two accessible translations of the Critique of Pure Reason--Meiklejohn (Bell & Co.) and Max Müller (Macmillan).
Kant's ethical writings have been translated by Abbott (Longmans).
There is a translation of the Critique of Pure Reason by Bernard (Macmillan), and of the first part of it, the Critique of Æsthetic Judgment, by Meredith (Clarendon Press). This last book has introductory essays and notes.
The student beginning the study of Kant will find Watson's Selections from Kant (MacLehose & Sons) useful if he cannot read the Critiques in full.
COMMENTARIES
The most useful small books on Kant are Adamson, The Philosophy of Kant (Blackwood), and Watson, The Philosophy of Kant Explained (MacLehose). The best and most thorough work on Kant in English is Caird, The Critical Philosophy of Kant, 2 vols. (MacLehose).
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