Kant's Latin writings : translations, commentaries, and notes
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Kant's Latin writings : translations, commentaries, and notes
(American university studies, Series V,
P. Lang, c1992
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Description
Kant's extant Latin works fall into two groups. First, there are the four academic dissertations which Kant presented to the University and which led him slowly up the rungs of the academic ladder to his full professorship in 1770. They are: Meditations on Fire (his Ph.D. dissertation), the New Exposition of the First Principles of Metaphysical knowledge (his dissertation for appointment as Privatdozent), Physical Monadology (a dissertation submitted in support of Kant's first application for a professorship, which was unsuccessful), and The Form and Principles of the Sensible and the Intelligible World (the Inaugural Dissertation of 1770). These works are of absolutely central importance for understanding Kant's mature philosophy, which begins with the Critique of Pure Reason. The second group consists of two shorter papers: a rectoral address on philosophy and mental health, and a disputation on rhetorical and aesthetic questions presented at a promotion of a former student to a professorship.
These are interesting evidence of the breadth of Kant's interests, and are important for the understanding of his treatment of related subjects in the larger German works available in English translation.
Table of Contents
Contents: On Fire (1755) - first Principles of Metaphysical Knowledge, also know as Nova dilucidatio - Physical Monadology (1756) - The Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World, also know as the Inaugural Dissertation (1770) - Sensory Deception and Poetic Fiction (1777) - On the Philosophers' Medicine of the Body (1788).
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