The Critique of Pure Reason teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on The Critique of Pure Reason for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Parts 1 to 16
The argument establishes space and time as conditions of experience, then introduces the joint roles and limits of sensation and thought.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Parts 17 to 32
The argument derives categories from judgment and explains how synthesis and unified consciousness make knowledge possible within sensory limits.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Parts 33 to 47
The argument completes its account of categories, then examines reason’s search beyond experience and unsupported claims about the soul.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Parts 48 to 63
Cosmological conflicts reveal the danger of treating appearances as complete independent wholes, while freedom and a necessary being remain unproved.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Parts 64 to 79
The critique rejects speculative proofs of God, establishes discipline for reason, and grounds religious confidence in moral commitment rather than knowledge.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
The Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
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