Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000765
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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This volume contains the first translation into English of notes from Kant's lectures on metaphysics.

Author: Courtney D. Fugate
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316827550
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Kant divided his course of lectures on metaphysics into six parts: a section entitled 'prolegomena' followed by chapters on ontology, cosmology, empirical psychology, rational psychology, and natural theology. This volume's ten chapters, written by leading Kant scholars, constitute the most comprehensive and informed analysis of his metaphysics lectures to date. The book provides balanced coverage of the lecture transcripts from Kant's course by following his general structure, with at least one chapter devoted to major themes from each of its parts. As well as examining what the lecture transcripts can tell us about the content, context, and development of Kant's thought on a range of key topics - from his conception of transcendental philosophy to his critical theism - the contributors to this volume also offer expert discussion and insight on how to make responsible use of these key primary materials from the Kantian corpus.

Author: Alexander Baumgarten
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441132945
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762), an influential German philosopher preceding Immanuel Kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics. Yet his manual on metaphysics was one of the chief textbooks of philosophical instruction in latter 18th-Century Germany. Originally published in Latin, Kant used the Metaphysics for nearly four decades as the basis for lectures on metaphysics, anthropology and religion. Kant composed many of the preparatory sketches for the Critique of Pure Reason in the blank interleaved pages of his personal copy. Available for the first time in English, this critical translation draws from the original seven Latin editions and Georg Friedrich Meier’s 18th-century German translation. Together with a historical and philosophical introduction, extensive glossaries and notes, the text is supported by translations of Kant’s elucidations and notes, Eberhard’s insertions in the 1783 German edition and texts from the writings of Meier and Wolff. For scholars of Kant, the German Enlightenment and the history of metaphysics, Alexander Baumgarten’s Metaphysics is an essential, authoritative resource to a significant philosophical text.

Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521771617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.

Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521546911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Author: Eric Watkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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A book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context.

Author: Lara Denis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316194574
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.

Author: Bernd Dörflinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110351536
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Although they were not written by Kant himself, the transcripts of his lectures constitute an important source for philosophical research today. Some of the contributions presented in this volume discuss the authenticity and significance of these transcripts, for example the status of Kant's lectures on logic and anthropology, while others shed light on the historical formation of specific writings, for instance the texts on the philosophy of religion. The contributions provide new insights into Kant's philosophy, that, if looking at Kant's published writings alone, we would not be able to gain. In a number of cases, a critical analysis of Kant's lectures gives us a better understanding of his published works. Thus his lectures on metaphysics shed new light on his Critique of Pure Reason, while the lecture on natural law is a valuable source for the understanding of his published legal writings.

Author: Courtney D. Fugate
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198783884
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Majority of chapters contained in this volume the result of the conference "Alexander Baumgarten's Metaphysics: Sources, Interpretation and influence" held at La Salle University, March 2014.

Author: Wilfrid Sellars
Publisher: Ridgeview Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780924922398
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Contains edited notes for Wilfrid Sellars' Cassirer Lectures along with his later essays on Kant and an introduction by the editor.