I took on reading this book around 9/2/22, knowing full well it was gonna take me atleast six months to finish it. My copy stretched to around 600 pages, and was full of very dense philosophical writing that certainly went far above my head. I think picking this book up was a mistake giving my comprehention of the book, but I do not necessarily regret taking it on. During the time it took me to read this tome, I spent 3 months in Spain (one of those was spent hiking the Camino de Santiago), got a new job travelling around the US and finoshed two other smaller books when I needed a break.

As far as the structure of this book goes, it is easily the best book I have ever read. If an individual were to have the necceary reading comprehension to understand this book, he or she could possibly skip all of philosophy up to the point of Kant because of how well he summarizes the work of other philosophers. In a single beautiful sentence, Kant was able to condense the entire work of Plato, without sophmorically simlyfying it for the sake of brevity. I heard someone describe the footnotes of this book to each contain a master students thesis given how complex they are, and I have to agree with such a statment.

The primary focus this book has is on the knowledge we have access to without experience, refered to as a priori knowledge, and the total scope of reality that we can truly understand. To put it brief, Kant finds that our knoweldge of both space and time are the only things we truly know, and our entire understanding of reality comes from these two concepts. However, Kant finds that since we are unable to understand anything outside of its relation to both space and time, our understanding of anything is thus flawed.