id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7177 View source for Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia .html text/html 27624 3586 61 From this it follows that the objects of experience are mere "appearances", and that the nature of things as they are in themselves is consequently unknowable to us.{{cite book|last1=Durant|first1=Will|last2=Durant|first2=Ariel|title=The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution|date=1967|publisher=MJF Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq2ffQUf1GIC|isbn=978-1-56731-021-4|pages=571, 574|access-date=22 August 2020|archive-date=20 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220055815/https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq2ffQUf1GIC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=A little history of philosophy|author=Nigel Warburton|publisher=Yale University Press|chapter-url={{Google books|SGL4QPwDTVsC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}}|page=134|chapter=Chapter 19: Rose-tinted reality: Immanuel Kant|isbn=978-0-300-15208-1|year=2011}} In an attempt to counter the [[Philosophical skepticism|skepticism]] he found in the writings of philosopher [[David Hume]], he wrote the ''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]'' (1781/1787),There are two relatively recent translations: Although now uniformly recognized as one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, this ''Critique'' disappointed Kant's readers upon its initial publication.{{Cite book|last=Dorrien|first=Gary|title=Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2012|isbn=978-0-470-67331-7|location=Malden, MA|pages=37}} The book was long, over 800 pages in the original German edition, and written in a convoluted style. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7177.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7177.txt