《纯粹理性批判》是西方哲学史上的重要里程碑，它与《实践理性批判》和《判断力批判》共同构成了康德思想体系的核心。《纯粹理性批判》简单说就是一本关于形而上学的著作，全书在前言之后分为长短不一的两部分，第一部分是占全书六分之五篇幅的“先验要素论”，讨论人类知识的源头，即人类认识能力中的先天要素；第二部分是仅占六分之一篇幅的“先验方法论”，关注的是使用纯粹理性及其先验观点的方法。不论是“先验要素论”还是“先验方法论”，两者都是在分析知识源头时以及在探讨所有可能经验时被假定存在的，因而都是先验或超验的。它从哲学认识论的角度全面论证了以牛顿为代表的自然科学的真理性，同时又改变了哲学的研究方法，遵循了数学那样的严格性，使哲学本身以科学为榜样而得到彻底改造。

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION，1781
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION，1787
INTRODUCTION
I． Of the Difference Between Pure and Empirical Knowledge
II． The Human Intellect, even in an Unphilosophical State, is in Possession of Certain Cognitions A Priori
III． Philosophy Stands in Need of a Science which Shall Determine the Possibility, Principles, and Extent of Human Knowledge A Priori
IV． Of the Difference Between Analytical and Synthetical Judgements
V． In all Theoretical Sciences of Reason, Synthetical Judgements A Priori Are Contained as Principles
VI． The Universal Problem of Pure Reason
VII． Idea and Division of a Particular Science, Under the Name of a Critique of Pure Reason
TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS
PART I. TRANSCENDENTAL AESTHETIC
Introductory
SECTION I. OF SPACE
Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception
Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Space
Conclusions from the Foregoing Conceptions
SECTION II. OF TIME
Exposition of this Conception
Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Time
Conclusions from the Above Conceptions
Elucidation
General Remarks on Transcendental Aesthetic
Conclusion of the Transcendental Aesthetic
PART II. TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC
I. Of Logic in General
II. Of Transcendental Logic
III. Of the Division of General Logic into Analytic and Dialectic
IV. Of the Division of Transcendental Logic into Transcendental Analytic and Dialectic
FIRST DIVISION
TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC
BOOK I. ANALYTIC OF CONCEPTIONS
CHAPTER I. Of the Transcendental Clue to the Discovery of all Pure Conceptions of the Understanding
SECTION I. Of the Logical Use of the Understanding in General
SECTION II. Of the Logical Function of the Understanding in Judgements
SECTION III. Of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding, or Categories
CHAPTER II. Of the Deduction of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding
SECTION I. Of the Principles of a Transcendental Deduction in General
Transition to the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
SECTION II. Of the Possibility of a Conjunction of the Manifold Representations Given by Sense
BOOK II. ANALYTIC OF PRINCIPLES
Of the Transcendental Faculty of Judgement in General
CHAPTER I. Of the Schematism of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding
CHAPTER II. System of all Principles of the Pure Understanding
SECTION I. Of the Supreme Principle of all Analytical Judgements
SECTION II. Of the Supreme Principle of all Synthetical Judgements
SECTION III. Systematic Representation of all Synthetical Principles of the Pure Understanding
I. Axioms of Intuition
II. Anticipations of Perception
III. Analogies of Experience
A. FIRST ANALOGY—Principle of the Permanence of Substance
B. SECONGD ANALOGY—Principle of the Succession of Time
C. THIRD ANALOGY—Principle of Coexistence
IV. The Postulates of Empirical Thought
Explanation
Refutation of Idealism
General Remark on the System of Principles
CHAPTER III. Of the Ground of the Division of all Objects into Phenomena and Noumena
APPENDIX. Of the Equivocal Nature or Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection from the Confusion of the Transcendental with the Empirical Use of the Understanding
Remark on the Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection
SECOND DIVISION
TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC
I. Of Transcendental Illusory Appearance
II. Of Pure Reason as the Seat of Transcendental Illusory Appearance
A. Of Reason in General
B. Of the Logical Use of Reason
C. Of the Pure Use of Reason
BOOK I. OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF PURE REASON
SECTION I. Of Ideas in General
SECTION II. Of Transcendental Ideas
SECTION III. System of Transcendental Ideas
BOOK II. OF THE DIALECTICAL PROCEDURE OF PURE REASON
CHAPTER I. Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason
Refutation of the Argument of Mendelssohn for the Substantiality or Permanence of the Soul
Con