Metaphysics : a critical translation with Kant's elucidations, selected notes, and related materials

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Metaphysics : a critical translation with Kant's elucidations, selected notes, and related materials

Alexander Baumgarten ; translated and edited with an introduction by Courtney D. Fugate and John Hymers

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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Metaphysica

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Translated from Baumgarten's Latin and Kant's German

First published in hardcover, 2013

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-412) and index

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Now available for the first time in English, this critical translation of Metaphysica draws from the original seven Latin editions, the Academy edition of Kant, and Georg Friedrich Meier's 18th-century German translation. To assist and support the reading of this crucial text, the translation features: * historical and philosophical introductions and sketches * extensive glossaries and notes * clear reproductions of Kant's elucidations and handwritten notes * Eberhard's insertions in the 1783 German edition Used as a philosophical instruction for thinkers such as Kant, Mendelssohn, Abbt, Herder, and Maimon, Metaphysica is arguably one of philosophy's most influential texts. Equipped with supportive and illuminating introductory material, this clear and lucid translation presents scholars of Kant, German philosophy and the history of philosophy with an indispensable resource.

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Part I: Introduction to the Translation Introduction 1. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) and Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777): A historical sketch 2. The philosophical context of the Metaphysics 3. Kant's Handwritten Notes to the Metaphysics 4. Notes on this translation Part II: The Translation Alexander Baumgarten's Metaphysics Johann August Eberhard's Preface to the Second German Edition (1783) Georg Friedrich Meier's Preface to the First German Translation (1766) Preface of the third edition (1750) Preface of the second edition (1743) To the listener of good will [preface to the first edition](1739) Synopsis Prolegomena to Metaphysics Part I: Ontology Prologomena Chapter I. The universal internal predicates of a being Chapter II. The internal disjunctive predicates of a being Chapter III. The relative predicates of a being Part II: Cosmology Prologomena Chapter I. The concept of the world Chapter II. The parts of the universe Chapter III. The perfection of the universe Part III: Psychology Prolegomena Chapter I. Empirical psychology Chapter II. Rational psychology Part IIII: Natural theology Prolegomena Chapter I. The concept of God Chapter II. The operations of God Part III: Ancillary Materials Glossary Latin-English English-Latin Notes and Textual variants Selected Bibliography Index to the paragraphs of the Metaphysics General Index

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