Immanuel Kant: 12 Classic Works

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. He argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. His thoughts today continue to have a major influence on fields such as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.

Kant's major work, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781), tries to explain the relationship between reason and human experience. The work was Kant’s attempt at putting an end to what he considered an era of futile and speculative theories of human experience.

Kant published several other important works on ethics, religion, law, aesthetics, astronomy, and history. These include the Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, 1788), Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, 1785), which deals with ethics, and the Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790), which looks at aesthetics and teleology.

The Collection

• The Critique of Judgement
• Critique of Practical Reason
• Critique of Pure Reason
• Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Idea of a Universal History On a Cosmopolitical Plan
• Kant's Inaugural Dissertation of 1770
• Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books
• Perpetual Peace
• Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
• The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
• The Philosophy of Law