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Critique of Pure Reason (Meiklejohn)/Volume 1/Part 2/Division 1/Book 1

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Critique of Pure Reason (1855)
by Immanuel Kant, translated by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, Part 2, Division 1, Book 1
Immanuel Kant4684544Critique of Pure Reason — Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, Part 2, Division 1, Book 11855John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC.

BOOK I.

Analytic of Conceptions.

§ 2.

By the term “Analytic of Conceptions,” I do not understand the analysis of these, or the usual process in philosophical investigations of dissecting the conceptions which present themselves, according to their content, and so making them clear; but I mean the hitherto little attempted dissection of the faculty of understanding itself, in order to investigate the possibility of conceptions à priori, by looking for them in the understanding alone, as their birth-place, and analysing the pure use of this faculty. For this is the proper duty of a transcendental philosophy; what remains is the logical treatment of the conceptions in philosophy in general. We shall therefore follow up the pure conceptions even to their germs and beginnings in the human understanding, in which they lie, until they are developed on occasions presented by experience, and, freed by the same understanding from the empirical conditions attaching to them, are set forth in their unalloyed purity.