Listen to my attempt to summarise Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in 13 minutes

I've just posted the latest installment of my podcast of my book Philosophy: The Classics (3rd ed.). It's the chapter on the notoriously difficult Critique of Pure Reason. Life is short, so I've provided what I take to be the essence of the book summarised in 13 minutes of podcast. Inevitably this involves some simplification and glossing over of arguments...(OK, quite a lot)...I'd like to cite Yogi Berra in my defence:

    "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

Listen to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason summarised here.

Listen to other podcasts from Philosophy: The Classics here.

Comments

[Jeremy Henty]

This would be a warm-up for Monty Python's "summarise Proust" competition, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8rhIw_9ucA

[Jean Kazez]

My father is 81 and made up his mind he has to read the Critique of Pure Reason before it's too late. He's a theoretical physicist and he thinks (I guess) this is going to be revelatory. The problem is, of course, it's unreadable. So he's started reading a short book about it instead. The problem is that's unreadable too. Apparently it's quite sleep-inducing. Your 13 minute summary is going to be the perfect thing!

[Rohan Bhandari]

13 minutes???!!! I'm reading that damned thing for my philosophy major, and thats got to be some kind of record, if not proof of god reaching out through man to spread his message.