"This new, complete translation of Kant's 'Groundwork' makes a challenging foundational work of moral philosophy accessible to all readers. Remaining faithful to the original German, the text is rendered clearly to promote reader comprehension. An inviting introduction, running commentary, and glossary further support study and interpretation"--
"In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Immanuel Kant makes clear his two central intentions: first, to uncover the principle that underpins morality, and secondly to defend its applicability to human beings. The result is one of the most significant texts in the history of ethics, and a masterpiece of Enlightenment thinking. Kant argues that moral law tells us to act only in ways that others could also act, thereby treating them as ends in themselves and not merely as means. Kant contends that despite apparent threats to our freedom from science, and to ethics from our self-interest, we can nonetheless take ourselves to be free rational agents, who as such have a motivation to act on this moral law, and thus the ability to act as moral beings. One of the most studied works of moral philosophy, this new translation by Robert Stern, Joe Saunders, and Christopher Bennett illuminates this famous text for modern readers."--(Provided by publisher.)
This book is the first translation into English of the Reflections which Kant wrote whilst formulating his ideas in political philosophy: the preparatory drafts for Theory and Practice, Toward Perpetual Peace, the Doctrine of Right, and Conflict of the Faculties; and the only surviving student transcription of his course on Natural Right. Through these texts one can trace the development of his political thought, from his first exposure to Rousseau in the mid 1760s through to his last musings in the late 1790s after his final system of Right was published. The material covers such topics as the central role of freedom, the social contract, the nature of sovereignty, the means for achieving international peace, property rights in relation to the very possibility of human agency, the general prohibition of rebellion, and Kant's philosophical defense of the French Revolution.
"This book is the first translation into English of the Reflections which Kant wrote whilst formulating his ideas in political philosophy: the preparatory drafts for Theory and Practice, Toward Perpetual Peace, the Doctrine of Right, and Conflict of the Faculties; and the only surviving student transcription of his course on Natural Right. Through these texts one can trace the development of his political thought, from his first exposure to Rousseau in the mid 1760s through to his last musings in the late 1790s after his final system of Right was published. The material covers such topics as the central role of freedom, the social contract, the nature of sovereignty, the means for achieving international peace, property rights in relation to the very possibility of human agency, the general prohibition of rebellion, and Kant's philosophical defense of the French Revolution"--
Title Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFATORY NOTE. -- KANT'S INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC. -- I. - CONCEPTION OF LOGIC. -- II. - CHIEF DIVISIONS OF LOGIC-TREATMENT-USE OF THIS SCIENCE-SKETCH OF A HISTORY OF LOGIC. -- III. - CONCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY IN GENERAL-PHILOSOPHY CONSIDERED ACCORDING TO THE SCHOLASTIC CONCEPTION AND ACCORDING TO THE COSMICAL CONCEPTION-ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS AND OBJECTS OF PHILOSOPHIZING-THE MOST GENERAL AND HIGHEST PROBLEMS OF THIS SCIENCE. -- IV. - SHORT SKETCH OF A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. -- V. - KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL-INTUITIVE AND DISCURSIVE KNOWLEDGE-INTUITION AND CONCEPT, AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THEM-LOGICAL AND AESTHETICAL PERFECTION OF KNOWLEDGE. -- VI. - SPECIAL LOGICAL PERFECTIONS OF COGNITION. -- VII. -- VIII. -- IX. -- X. - PROBABILITY-DEFINITION OF PROBABILITY-DISTINCTION BETWEEN PROBABILITY AND VERISIMILITUDE-MATHEMATICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PROBABILITY-DOUBT, SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE-SCEPTICAL, DOGMATICAL, AND CRITICAL METHOD OF PHILOSOPHIZING-HYPOTHESES. -- APPENDIX. - OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE. -- THE MISTAKEN SUBTILTY OF THE FOUR SYLLOGISTIC FIGURES. - (FIRST PUBLISHED, 1762.) -- SECTION I. - General Conception of the Nature of Ratiocination. -- SECTION II. - Of the Supreme Rules of all Ratiocination. -- SECTION III. - Of Pure and Mixed Ratiocination. -- SECTION IV. - In the so-called First Figure Pure Ratiocinations only are possible, in the remaining Figures only mixed. -- SECTION V. - The Logical Division of the Four Figures is a Mistaken Subtilty. -- SECTION VI. - Concluding Observation. -- NOTES BY COLERIDGE. -- Notes -- Copyright Page
The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, one of his three major treatises on moral theory, and a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy. Originally published three years after his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique provides further elaboration of the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This revised edition of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason - which contains Mary Gregor's acclaimed translation - is now the authoritative translation of this work. A substantial and lucid introduction by Andrews Reath places the mains themes of the Critique in the context of Kant's moral theory and his critical system. For this edition, the introduction has been revised and the guide to the secondary reading completely updated
This is the first volume of the first ever comprehensive edition of the works of Immanuel Kant in English translation. The eleven essays in this volume constitute Kant's theoretical, pre-critical philosophical writings from 1755 to 1770. Several of these pieces have never been translated into English before; others have long been unavailable in English. We can trace in these works the development of Kant's thought to the eventual emergence in 1770 of the two chief tenets of his mature philosophy: the subjectivity of space and time, and the phenomena-noumena distinction. The volume has been furnished with substantial editorial apparatus, including a general introduction to the main themes of Kant's early thought, introduction to the individual works and résumés of their contents, linguistic and factual notes, bibliographies, a glossary of key terms, and biographical-bibliographical sketches of persons mentioned by Kant.