Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments, and in (...) which Kant himself explains his special terminology. The first reviews of the Critique, to which Kant responded in the Prolegomena, are included in this revised edition. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction, explanatory notes, a chronology, and a guide to further reading. (shrink)

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 re;sume;s of their contents, linguistic and factual notes, bibliographies, a glossary of key terms, and biographical-bibliographical sketches of persons mentioned by Kant. (shrink)

Published in 1785, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought. In this book, Immanuel Kant formulates and justifies a supreme principle of morality that issues universal and unconditional moral commands. These commands receive their normative force from the fact that rational agents autonomously impose the moral law upon themselves. As such, they are laws of freedom. This volume contains the first facing-page German-English edition of (...) class='Hi'>Kant's Groundwork. It presents an authentic edition of the German text and a carefully revised version of Mary Gregor's acclaimed English translation, as well as editorial notes and a full bilingual index. It will be the edition of choice for any student or scholar who is not content with reading this central contribution to modern moral philosophy through the veil of English translation. (shrink)

Immanuel Kant's Werke Sorgfaltig Revidirte Gesammtausgabe in Zehn Banden by Immanuel Kant. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1839 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.".

Many contemporaries criticized him for smashing the Age of Reason. Goethe, however, remarked that reading a page of Immanuel Kant was like entering a bright and well-lighted room: The great eighteenth-century philosopher illuminated everything he ever pondered. The twelve essays in this volume reveal Kant's towering importance as an ethical and social thinker as well as his enduring influence on the shape of philosophy. Included are excerpts from Dreams of a Visionary, Prolegomena to Every Future Metaphysics, Metaphysical (...) Foundations of Morals, Critique of Judgement , and Eternal Peace . As Professor Friedrich writes in his introduction to this volume: "The problem of freedom, the freedom of the human personality to unfold and fulfill its higher destiny, is the central issue of all of Kant's philosophizing.". (shrink)

Die hier edierten Gesprächstexte vermitteln über biographische Erkenntnisse hinaus Einsichten in einzelne Bereiche von Kants philosophischem Denken und beleuchten u.a. seine politischen und religiösen Anschauungen. Licht fällt hierbei auch auf die Biographie und Weltauffassung der Gesprächspartner, u.a. Fichte, Hamann, Herder, Hippel, Karamsin, Mendelssohn und Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Reichhaltige Erläuterungen des Herausgebers zu den einzelnen Texten, biographische Informationen und mehrfache Register erschließen den Band für den wissenschaftlichen Gebrauch.

_One summary of the great Kant's view, to the extent that it can be summed up, is_ _that he takes determinism to be a kind of fact, and indeterminism to be another kind_ _of fact, and our freedom to be a fact too -- but takes this situation to have nothing to_ _do with the kind of compatibility of determinism and freedom proclaimed by such_ _Compatibilists as Hobbes and Hume. Thus Kant does not make freedom consistent_ _with determinism (...) by taking up a definition of freedom as voluntariness -- at bottom,_ _being able to do what you want. This he dismisses as a wretched subterfuge,_ _quibbling about words. Rather, the freedom he seeks to make consistent with_ _determinism does indeed seem to be the freedom of the Incompatibilists --_ _origination. Is he then an Incompatibilist? Well, against that, it can be said he does_ _not allow the existence of origination in what can be called the world we know, as_ _Incompatibilists certainly do._. (shrink)

In Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft stellt der Autor seine Theorie der Erkenntnis und der Wissenschaft dar. Das Werk ist ein Meilenstein der Philosophie und hat bis heute einen großen Einfluss auf die moderne Philosophie und Wissenschaft. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United (...) States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. (shrink)

This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes little-known essays as well as personal notes and fragments that reveal (...) the emergence of Kant's complex philosophical ideas. Those familiar with Kant's later works will discover a Kant interested in the 'beauty' as well as the 'dignity' of humanity, in human diversity as well as the universality of morals, and in practical concerns rather than abstract philosophizing. Readers will be able to see Kant's development from the Observations through the Remarks towards the moral philosophy that eventually made him famous. (shrink)

VSEBINAPredgovor k prvi izdajiPredgovor k drugi izdajiUvodI. O razliki med čistim in empiričnim spoznanjemII. V posesti imamo neka apriorna spoznanja, in celo navadni razum ni nikoli brez takšnih spoznanjIII. Filozofija potrebuje neko znanost, ki bi določila možnost, principe in obseg vseh apriornih spoznanjIV. O razliki med analitičnimi in sintetičnimi sodbamiV. V vseh teoretičnih znanostih uma so kot principi vsebovane apriorne sinteticne sodbeVI. Obča naloga čistega umaVII. Ideja in razdelitev posebne znanosti z imenom kritika čistega uma1. Transcendentalni nauk o elementihPrvi del. (...) Transcendentalna estetika§ 1.Prvi odsek. O prostoru§ 2. Metafizična ekspozicija tega pojma§ 3. Transcendentalna ekspozicija pojma prostoraSklepi iz gornjih pojmovDrugi odsek. O času§ 4. Metafizična ekspozicija pojma časa§ 5. Transcendentalna ekspozicija pojma časa§ 6. Sklepi iz teh pojmov§ 7. Pojasnilo§ 8. Obče opombe k transcendentalni estetikiZaključek transcendentalne estetikeDrugi del. Transcendentalna logikaUvod. Ideja transcendentalne logikeI. O logiki nasplohII. O transcendentalni logikiIII. O razdelitvi obče logike na analitiko in dialektikoIV. O razdelitvi transcendentalne logike na transcendentalno analitiko in dialektikoPrvi razdelek. Transcendentalna analitikaPrva knjiga. Analitika pojmovPrvo poglavje. O vodilu za odkrtije vseh čistih razumskih pojmovPrvi odsek. O logični rabi razuma nasplohDrugi odsek§ 9. O logični funkciji razuma v sodbahTretji odsek§ 10. O čistih razumskih pojmih ali kategorijah§ 11.§ 12.Drugo poglavje. O dedukciji čistih razumskih pojmovPrvi odsek§ 13. O principih transcendentalne dedukcije nasploh[§ 14.] Prehod k transcendentalni dedukciji kategorijDrugi odsek. Transcendentalna dedukcija čistih razumskih pojmov [B]§ 15. O možnosti povezave nasploh§ 16. O izvorni sintetični enotnosti apercepcije§ 17. Načelo sintetične enotnosti apercepcije je najvišji princip vse rabe razuma§ 18. Kaj je objektivna enotnost samozavedanja§ 19. Logična forma vseh sodb je v objektivni enotnosti apercepcije v njih vsebovanih pojmov§ 20. Vsi čutni zori so podvrženi kategorijam kot pogojem, pod katerimi se njihovo raznoterje edino lahko združi v eno zavest§ 21. Opomba§ 22. Kategorija nima nobene druge rabe za spoznanje reči, kot je njena aplikacija na predmete izkustva§ 23.§ 24. O aplikaciji kategorij na predmete čutov nasploh§ 25.§ 26. Transcendentalna dedukcija obče možne izkustvene rabe čistih razumskih pojmov§ 27. Rezultat te dedukcije razumskih pojmovDrugi odsek. O apriornih temeljih za možnost izkustva [A]Vnaprejšnje opozorilo1. O sintezi aprehenzije v zoru2. O sintezi reprodukcije v upodobitvi3. O sintezi rekognicije v pojmu4. Preliminarna razlaga možnosti kategorij kot apriornih spoznanjTretji odsek. O razmerju razuma do predmetov nasploh in možnosti, da jih spoznamo apriori [A]Sumarična predstavitev pravilnosti in edine možnosti te dedukcije čistih razumskih pojmov [A]Druga knjiga. Analitika načelUvod. O transcendentalni razsodni moči nasplohPrvo poglavje. O shematizmu čistih razumskih pojmov. (shrink)

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Excerpt from Kritische Briefe an Herrn Immanuel Kant, Professor in Königsberg, Über Seine Kritik der Reinen Vernunft Lieb unter ben &ataofen {ehe M warb W beeindrf [eine 'deincipien, wobul;tb 0 Melam i Wfi im biete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing (...) imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. (shrink)

Arnold Kowalewski (1873-1945) war der letzte Vertreter der Königsberger Kant-Forschung, die mit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges abbrach. Von dem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Volksausgabe der Kantischen Schriften in 5 Bänden, mit dem er von der Stadt Königsberg 1941 beauftragt worden war, um einen Überblick über das Kantische Schaffen zu erleichtern, ist allein das Typoskript für Band 1 vollständig ausgearbeitet worden. Der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit war der erreichte Stand der Realisierung unbekannt. Typoskript, korrigierte Druckfahnen und weitere Dokumente zur Entstehung der Ausgabe (...) blieben bis in den Sommer 1998 Teil des unveröffentlichten Nachlasses. Die besondere Bedeutung des im Nachlaß von Arnold Kowalewski bewahrten Manuskripts mit Dokumenten und Quellentexten zu Kants Lehrtätigkeit liegt heute darin, daß der anerkannte Kant-Philologe und -Interpret für seine Edition noch auf Texte und Zeugnisse aus den Beständen der Königsberger Bibliotheken zugreifen konnte, die seit 1945 verschollen sind. Dies gilt vor allem für die ausgewählten Texte aus Kants Vorlesungen über Anthropologie, Geographie, Logik und Metaphysik, die - wenn auch in sekundärer Überlieferung - durch den vorliegenden Band erhalten sind. (shrink)

Very few biographies of Kant exist. The Neo-Kantian movement renewed interest in his life. During the last half of the 19th century, John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg provided an eminently readable biography of Kant, as seen from a sympathetic, yet detached viewpoint.

Kant's only aesthetic work apart from the Critique of Judgment , Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime gives the reader a sense of the personality and character of its author as he sifts through the range of human responses to the concept of beauty and human manifestations of the beautiful and sublime. Kant was fifty-eight when the first of his great Critical trilogy, the Critique of Pure Reason , was published. Observations offers a view into (...) the mind of the forty-year-old Kant. (shrink)