Synopses & Reviews
The eleven essays in this volume constitute Kant's theoretical, pre-critical philosophical writings from 1755 to 1770. Several essays have never been translated into English before, while others have long been unavailable. The development of Kant's thought can be traced 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. Hb ISBN (1992): 0-521-39214-4
Review
"This is an excellent edition, a work that should fulfill the high hopes its chief editors place upon the whole series: to serve as an 'instrument of stimulus for the further development of Kant studies by English speaking readers in the century to come.'" The Philosophical Review
Synopsis
This is the first volume of the first ever comprehensive edition of the works of Kant in English translation. The essays in this volume constitute Kant's philosophical writings from 1755 to 1770. Several of these pieces have never been translated into English before; others have long been unavailable in English.
Synopsis
First volume of the first comprehensive edition of the works of Kant in English translation.
Table of Contents
Introductions of the translations; 1. A new elucidation of the first principles of metaphysical cognition (1755); 2. The employment in natural philosophy of metaphysics combined with geometry, of which sample I contains the physical monadology (1756); 3. An attempt at some reflections on optimism (1759); 4. The false subtlety of the four syllogistic figures (1762); 5. The only possible argument in support of a demonstration of the existence of God (1763); 6. Attempt to introduce the concept of negative magnitudes into philosophy (1763); 7. Inquiry concerning the distinctness of the principles of natural theology and morality (1764); 8. M. Immanuel Kant's announcement of the programme of his lectures for the winter semester 1765-1766 (1765); 9. Dreams of a spirit-seer elucidated by dreams of metaphysics (1766); 10. Concerning the ultimate ground of the differentiation of directions in space (1768); 11. On the form and principles of the sensible and the intelligible world [inaugural dissertation] (1770).