Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editors' preface
- Preface
- Guide to abbreviations
- General introduction
- Introductions to the translations
- Résumés of the works
- A NEW ELUCIDATION OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF METAPHYSICAL COGNITION (1755)
- THE EMPLOYMENT IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF METAPHYSICS COMBINED WITH GEOMETRY, OF WHICH SAMPLE I CONTAINS THE PHYSICAL MONADOLOGY (1756)
- AN ATTEMPT AT SOME REFLECTIONS ON OPTIMISM (1759)
- THE FALSE SUBTLETY OF THE FOUR SYLLOGISTIC FIGURES (1762)
- THE ONLY POSSIBLE ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF A DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (1763)
- ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT OF NEGATIVE MAGNITUDES INTO PHILOSOPHY (1763)
- INQUIRY CONCERNING THE DISTINCTNESS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL THEOLOGY AND MORALITY (1764)
- M. IMMANUEL KANT'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PROGRAMME OF HIS LECTURES FOR THE WINTER SEMESTER 1765 — 1766 (1765)
- DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER ELUCIDATED BY DREAMS OF METAPHYSICS (1766)
- CONCERNING THE ULTIMATE GROUND OF THE DIFFERENTIATION OF DIRECTIONS IN SPACE (1768)
- ON THE FORM AND PRINCIPLES OF THE SENSIBLE AND THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD [INAUGURAL DISSERTATION] (1770)
- Factual notes
- Bibliographies of editions and translations
- Glossary
- Biographical-bibliographical sketches of persons mentioned by Kant
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editors' preface
- Preface
- Guide to abbreviations
- General introduction
- Introductions to the translations
- Résumés of the works
- A NEW ELUCIDATION OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF METAPHYSICAL COGNITION (1755)
- THE EMPLOYMENT IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF METAPHYSICS COMBINED WITH GEOMETRY, OF WHICH SAMPLE I CONTAINS THE PHYSICAL MONADOLOGY (1756)
- AN ATTEMPT AT SOME REFLECTIONS ON OPTIMISM (1759)
- THE FALSE SUBTLETY OF THE FOUR SYLLOGISTIC FIGURES (1762)
- THE ONLY POSSIBLE ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF A DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (1763)
- ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT OF NEGATIVE MAGNITUDES INTO PHILOSOPHY (1763)
- INQUIRY CONCERNING THE DISTINCTNESS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL THEOLOGY AND MORALITY (1764)
- M. IMMANUEL KANT'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PROGRAMME OF HIS LECTURES FOR THE WINTER SEMESTER 1765 — 1766 (1765)
- DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER ELUCIDATED BY DREAMS OF METAPHYSICS (1766)
- CONCERNING THE ULTIMATE GROUND OF THE DIFFERENTIATION OF DIRECTIONS IN SPACE (1768)
- ON THE FORM AND PRINCIPLES OF THE SENSIBLE AND THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD [INAUGURAL DISSERTATION] (1770)
- Factual notes
- Bibliographies of editions and translations
- Glossary
- Biographical-bibliographical sketches of persons mentioned by Kant
- Index
Summary
The present volume contains the eleven works of theoretical philosophy composed by Kant during the final fifteen years of the pre-critical period of his thought, which comprises the twenty-three years from 1747 to 1770. During this period Kant composed twenty-five works, of which only one – On Fire (1755) – was not published and of which fourteen were devoted to a variety of themes not covered by this volume: physics and astronomy, geology and meteorology, aesthetics, ethics, and psychology. These fourteen works include the five scientific works of the first five years of the pre-critical period – the two works on physics Living Forces (1747) and On Fire, the two short essays on physical geography of 1754, and the important work of Newtonian cosmology, the Universal Natural History (1755) – and the nine works published during the period covered by this volume but excluded from it for thematic reasons – the three short earthquake essays of 1756; the two short meteorological essays of 1757; the last of Kant's scientific works, the Motion and Rest (1758); an occasional piece of 1760; the essay on morbid psychology, the Maladies of the Mind (1764); and an important work on aesthetics and anthropology, the Observations (1764).
The eleven pre-critical works of theoretical philosophy included in this volume are: (1) New Elucidation (1755), (2) Physical Monadology (1756), (3) Optimism (1759), (4) False Subtlety (1762), (5) The Only Possible Argument (1763), (6) Negative Magnitudes (1763), (7) Inquiry (1764), (8) Announcement (1765), (9) Dreams (1766), (10) Directions in Space (1768), and (11) Inaugural Dissertation (1770). The Physical Monadology has been included because, although it deals with a scientific theme (atomic theory), it also handles important philosophical themes (such as the distinction between physical space and geometrical space); the Maladies of the Mind has been excluded because, although it discusses themes touched on in the Dreams (such as madness, religious mania, and sensory hallucination), it does so from a primarily empirical standpoint.
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- Theoretical Philosophy, 1755–1770 , pp. xv - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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