Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Cambridge University Press, 2/3/2011
EAN 9780521884129, ISBN10: 0521884128

Hardcover, 398 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes little-known essays as well as personal notes and fragments that reveal the emergence of Kant's complex philosophical ideas. Those familiar with Kant's later works will discover a Kant interested in the 'beauty' as well as the 'dignity' of humanity, in human diversity as well as the universality of morals, and in practical concerns rather than abstract philosophizing. Readers will be able to see Kant's development from the Observations through the Remarks towards the moral philosophy that eventually made him famous.

Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
Note on the texts
Thoughts on the Occasion of Mr Johann Friedrich von Funk's Untimely Death (1760)
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764)
Remarks in Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764–5)
Essay on the Maladies of the Head (1764)
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, 1765–6 (1765)
Herder's notes from Kant's Lectures on Ethics (1762–4)
Selected notes and fragments from the 1760s
Index.