This is the most complete English edition of Kant?s correspondence that has ever been compiled. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical, and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant?s philosophical development. On anoth[...]
Brings together work by Kant never before available in English, and new translations of his important publications in natural science.[...]
This book, sure to become a standard reference work, is a comprehensive, lucid, and systematic commentary on Kant?s practical (or moral) philosophy. Kant is arguably the most important moral philosopher of the modern period; yet, prior to this area in a single volume. Using as nontechnical a languag[...]
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 thei[...]
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 Englis[...]
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 new, revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his[...]
Kant?s views on logic and logical theory play an important part in his critical writings, especially the Critique of Pure Reason. However, since he published only one short essay on the subject, we must turn to texts derived from his logic lectures to understand his views. This volume includes three[...]
This is the first English translation of all of Kantâs writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As well as Kantâs most famous moral and political writings, the Groundwork to the Metaphysics[...]
This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple and direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays an unprecedented philosop[...]
The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant's lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.[...]
This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kantâs writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. His final statement of religion was made after the de[...]
A defining work of moral philosophy, Kant s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals" has been influential to an extent far beyond what its modest length (roughly 75 pages) might suggest. It is also a famously difficult work, concerned with propounding universal principles rather than answering prac[...]
"Introduction to Logic" might just as well be entitled An Introduction to Kant's Thought, for it serves as an excellent introduction to Immanuel Kant's entire philosophy, a philosophy that is generally overwhelming when approached from any of his other books. To the student and scholar of Kant's tho[...]
Translated by Werner S. Pluhar.
Like Werner Pluhar's distinguished translation of Critique of Judgment (Hackett Publishing Co., 1987), this new rendering of Critique of Pure Reason reflects the elegant achievement of a master translator. This richly annotated volume offers translations of the complete texts of both the First (A) a[...]
This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.[...]
What is the standing of a sovereign nation and what are its rights relative to other sovereign nations? What is our obligation to pursue peace? Can intervention in the affairs of another sovereign nation be justified? Who, if any one, has the right to intervene? In this short essay, Kant completes h[...]
This volume provides Werner Pluhar's masterful rendering of Kant's major work on religion, an illuminating introduction by Stephen Palmquist, a selected bibliography, notes, glossary and a detailed index.[...]
This volume provides Werner Pluhar's masterful rendering of Kant's major work on religion, an illuminating introduction by Stephen Palmquist, a selected bibliography, notes, glossary and a detailed index.[...]
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text. 1. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (1784) 2. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) 3. Speculative Beginning of Human History (1786) 4. On the Proverb: That May Be True in Theory, but Is of [...]
Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words, its aim is to identify and corroborate the supreme p[...]