Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Video 39: Second Analogy: Causality

The second analogy is one of the most famous passages of the Critique. Here, Kant argues that the representation of an objective time order requires a universal application of the category of causation to appearances.

Required reading: Critique of Pure Reason, A189/B232-A211/B256.

Victor Gijsbers teaches philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. This video is part of his 2021 lecture series "Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason": Kant's Critique of Pure Reason