Weischedel Wilhelm Boeken

German

<b> <i>'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics and to bring about a complete revolution'</i> </b> Kant's <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i> (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The <i>Critique</i> brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.

Die Metaphysik der Sitten in zwei Teilen (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1797); 2nd edition: 1798. [Ak. 6:205-355, 373-493] “The Metaphysics of Morals.” Translated by Mary J. Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, edited by Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 365-603. The two parts were published separately (in January and August, respectively): Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre (235 pp) and Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre (190 pp). The following year, apart from a scarcely altered second edition of the Rechtslehre (which does, however, include an appendix that replies to Bouterwek’s review of the Rechtslehre that appeared 18 Feb 1797) Kant also published: Erläuternde Anmerkungen zu den metaphysischen Anfangsgründen der Rechtslehre (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798), 31 pp. [Ak. 6:356-72]. “Explanatory Notes on the Metaphysical Foundations of the Doctrine of Right.” The Rechtslehre suffered from some textual corruptions at the printers [Mautner 1981]; a reconstruction of the text has been attempted in Bern Ludwig’s recent edition (Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 1986).

34 große Philosophen in Alltag und Denken - Die philosophische Hintertreppe - bk356; Nymphenburger Verlag; Wilhelm Weischedel; Paperback; 1980