Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context)

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
1 Christian Wolff......Page 21
RATIONAL THOUGHTS ON GOD, THE WORLD AND THE SOUL OF HUMAN BEINGS, ALSO ALL THINGS IN GENERAL (1720)......Page 23
2 Martin Knutzen......Page 70
SYSTEM OF EFFICIENT CAUSES (1735)......Page 73
PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE ON THE IMMATERIAL NATURE OF THE SOUL (1744)......Page 91
3 Alexander Baumgarten......Page 100
METAPHYSICS (1739)......Page 105
4 Christian August Crusius......Page 148
SKETCH OF THE NECESSARY TRUTHS OF REASON (1745)......Page 153
5 Leonhard Euler......Page 196
LETTERS TO A GERMAN PRINCESS (1760–1762)......Page 199
6 Johann Heinrich Lambert......Page 247
“Treatise on the CRITERION OF TRUTH ” (1761)......Page 249
NEW ORGANON (1764)......Page 273
7 Marcus Herz......Page 291
First Letter: From Herz to Kant, September 11, 1770......Page 294
Third Letter: From Herz to Kant, July 9, 1771......Page 295
Observations from Speculative Philosophy (1771)......Page 297
Fourth Letter : From Kant to Herz, February 21, 1772......Page 328
Fifth Letter: From Kant to Marcus Herz, November 24, 1776......Page 332
8 Johann August Eberhard......Page 334
Universal Theory of Thinking and Sensing: A Treatment That Received the Prize Announced in the Year 1776 by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1776)......Page 336
9 Johann Nicolaus Tetens......Page 369
Philosophical Essays on Human Nature and Its Development (1777)......Page 373
Concordance......Page 408
Bibliography......Page 417
Index......Page 421