Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Norman Kemp Smith's translation |
To satisfy the English readership's urge for a translation that covers both of Kant's original versions Kemp Smith based his translation not on either of the editions alone, but on a parallel edition (with A/B paginations) provided by Raymund Schmidt (1925/26).
Kemp Smith exceled his two predecessors in being himself a dedicated Kant scholar. His Kant scholarship, though very much challenged today, is testified by his A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' which appeared as early as 1918.
About the electronic edition of Kemp Smith's translation of the Critique |
Steve told me that the text was scanned in and repeatedly proofread over years of personal use. In preparing the electronic text, page numbers of the English text (but not the original A/B pagination) were reproduced. Line structures (including all end-of-line hyphens) were also preserved (by using the <pre> and </pre> markup tags). With these two features, the electronic text prepared by Palmquist conforms by and large with the page layout of the paper version of the Kemp Smith text as was published by the MacMillan Book Company.
Steve also used the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) to generate a concordance and a word index for the Kemp Smith translation.
The WWW version of the Kemp Smith text together with the concordance and index output files (not online searchable) made their first appearance in October 1995, in the Hong Kong Baptist University where Steve is working.
Basic features of the online search engine:
After the construction of the online search engine, it gradually turns out that, for the search engine to be effective, some major modifications have to be made on the text database files themselves.
In this regard, we again have to thank Steve for giving his consent for such a move. Steve even sent us some of the original working copies of his database to facilitate the setup of this present CUHK edition. For timing and manpower reasons, the restructuring of the text database files has to be carried out in stages, starting with more urgent and structural related matters. Other more labour intensive work has to be done sometime in the future, probably during summer vacation!
Modifications made in the CUHK edition:
Modifications planned for the future:
Table of Contents of the Critique of Pure Reason as in the first edition (1781) |
Table of Contents of the Critique of Pure Reason as in the second edition (1787) |
I. TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS
First Part. Transcendental Aesthetic [065]
Introduction [065] Section 1. Space [065] Section 2. Time [074] General Observations on the Transcendental Aesthetic [082]Second Part. Transcendental Logic [092]
Introduction. Idea of a Transcendental Logic [092] I. Logic in General [092] II. Transcendental Logic [095] III. The Division of General Logic into Analytic and Dialectic [097] IV. The Division of Transcendental Logic into Transcendental Analytic and Dialectic [100]First Division. Transcendental Analytic [102]
Book I. Analytic of Concepts [103] Chapter I. The Clue to the Discovery of all Pure Concepts of the Understanding [104] Section 1. The Logical Employment of the Understanding in general [105] Section 2. The Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgments [106] Section 3. The Pure Concepts of the Understanding, or Categories [111] Chapter II. The Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding [120] Section 1. The Principles of any Transcendental Deduction [120] Transition to the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories [125] Section 2. Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding [129] Deduction as in First Edition [129] Deduction as in Second Edition [151] Book II. Analytic of Principles [170] Introduction. Transcendental Judgment in General [177] Chapter I. The Schematism of the Pure Concepts of Understanding [180] Chapter II. System of all Principles of Pure Understanding [188] Section 1. The Highest Principle of all Analytic Judgments [189] Section 2. The Highest Principle of all Synthetic Judgments [191] Section 3. Systematic Representation of all the Synthetic Principles of Pure Understanding [194] 1. Axioms of Intuition [197] 2. Anticipations of Perception [201] 3. Analogies of Experience [208] First Analogy. Principle of Permanence of Substance [212] Second Analogy. Principle of Succession in Time, in accordance with the Law of Causality [218] Third Analogy. Principle of Coexistence, in accordance with the Law of Reciprocity or Community [233] 4. The Postulates of Empirical Thought in general [239] Refutation of Idealism [244] General Note on the System of the Principles [252] Chapter III. The Ground of the Distinction of all Objects in general into Phenomena and Noumena [257] Appendix. The Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection [276] Note to the Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection [281]Second Division. Transcendental Dialectic [297]
Introduction [297] I. Transcendental Illusion [297] II. Pure Reason as the Seat of Transcendental Illusion [300] A. Reason in General [300] B. The Logical Employment of Reason [303] C. The Pure Employment of Reason [305] Book I. The Concepts of Pure Reason [308] Section 1. The Ideas in General [309] Section 2. The Transcendental Ideas [315] Section 3. System of the Transcendental Ideas [322] Book II. The Dialectical Inferences of Pure Reason [327] Chapter I. The Paralogisms of Pure Reason [328] The Paralogisms as in First Edition [333] The Paralogisms as in Second Edition [368] Chapter II. The Antinomy of Pure Reason [384] Section 1. System of Cosmological Ideas [386] Section 2. Antithetic of Pure Reason [393] First Antinomy [396] Second Antinomy [402] Third Antinomy [409] Fourth Antinomy [415] Section 3. The Interest of Reason in these Conflicts [422] Section 4. The Absolute Necessity of a Solution of the Transcendental Problems of Pure Reason [430] Section 5. Sceptical Representation of the Cosmological Questions in the Four Transcendental Ideas [436] Section 6. Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of the Cosmological Dialectic [439] Section 7. Critical Solution of the Cosmological Conflict of Reason with itself [443] Section 8. The Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in its application to the Cosmological Ideas [449] Section 9. The Empirical Employment of the Regulative Principle of Reason, in respect of all Cosmological Ideas [454] I. Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Composition of the Appearances of a Cosmic Whole [455] II. Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of Division of a Whole given in Intuition [459] Concluding Note and Preliminary Observation [461] III. Solution of the Cosmological Idea of Totality in the Derivation of Cosmical Events from their Causes [464] Possibility of Causality through Freedom [467] Explanation of the Cosmological Idea of Freedom [469] IV. Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Dependence of Appearances as regards their Existence in general [479] Concluding Note on the whole Antinomy of Pure Reason [483] Chapter III. The Ideal of Pure Reason [485] Section 1. The Ideal in general [485] Section 2. The Transcendental Ideal [487] Section 3. The Arguments of Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being [495] Section 4. The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God [500] Section 5. The Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God [507] Discovery and Explanation of the Dialectical Illusion in all Transcendental Proofs of the Existence of a Necessary Being [514] Section 6. The Impossibility of the Physico-theological Proof[518] Section 7. Critique of all Theology based upon Speculative Principles of Reason [525] Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic [532] The Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason [532] The Final Purpose of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason [549]II. TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF METHOD
Introduction [573] Chapter I. The Discipline of Pure Reason [574] Section 1. The Discipline of Pure Reason in its Dogmatic Employment [576] Section 2. The Discipline of Pure Reason in respect of its Polemical Employment [593] Impossibility of a Sceptical Satisfaction of the Pure Reason that is in Conflict with itself [605] Section 3. The Discipline of Pure Reason in respect of Hypotheses [612] Section 4. The Discipline of Pure Reason in respect of its Proofs [621] Chapter II. The Canon of Pure Reason [629] Section 1. The Ultimate End of the Pure Employment of our Reason [630] Section 2. The Ideal of the Highest Good, as a Determining Ground of the Ultimate End of Pure Reason [635] Section 3. Opining, Knowing, and Believing [645] Chapter III. The Architectonic of Pure Reason [653] Chapter IV. The History of Pure Reason [666] Index :replaced in this electronic edition by our searchable index