Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
Background Source Materials

Presents new and first-time English translations of eighteenth-century texts that are essential for understanding Kant's moral philosophy in historical context.

Michael Walschots (Author)

9781108479981, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 March 2024

314 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

'In Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: Background Source Materials, Michael Walschots has collected and translated a number of texts that provide helpful context for Kant's moral philosophy … Walschots has done a superb job of producing a faithful, readable, and indeed enjoyable, translation of these texts … This volume will certainly be useful and interesting to scholars who work on Kant's practical philosophy.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Kant did not initially intend to write the Critique of Practical Reason, let alone three Critiques. It was primarily the reactions to the Critique of Pure Reason and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals that encouraged Kant to develop his moral philosophy in the second Critique. This volume presents both new and first-time English translations of texts written by Kant's predecessors and contemporaries that he read and responded to in the Critique of Practical Reason. It also includes several subsequent reactions to the second Critique. Together, the translations in this volume present the Critique of Practical Reason in its full historical context, offering scholars and students new insight into Kant's moral philosophy. The detailed editorial material appended to each of the eleven chapters helps introduce readers to the life and works of the authors, outlines the texts translated, and points to relevant passages across Kant's works.

Preface page
Acknowledgements
General note on citations and translations
General introduction
Part I. Pre-Kantian Moral Philosophy: 1. Christian Wolff: introduction
2. Christian August Crusius: introduction
Part II. Between the Critiques: 3. Johann Friedrich Flatt: introduction
4. Gottlob August Tittel: introduction
5. Hermann Andreas Pistorius: introduction
6. Hermann Andreas Pistorius: introduction
7. Thomas Wizenmann: introduction
Part III. The Reception of the Critique of Practical Reason: 8. Johann Georg Heinrich Feder: introduction
9. August Wilhelm Rehberg: introduction
10. Christian Garve: introduction
11. Hermann Andreas Pistorius: introduction
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]