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  • Baumgarten and Kant on the Foundations of Practical Philosophy

    Edited by Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers ...
    Over the last two decades, scholarship on Kant and modern German philosophy has become increasingly focused on understanding their historical roots. Central to this development is the work of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-62), whose textbooks profoundly influenced later generations of German philosophers. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), in particular, lectured from Baumgarten's textbooks, ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics

    Edited by Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers ...
    Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (17141762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because of its impact on Kant's intellectual development, and because of the way it fundamentally informed the work of generations of German philosophers, ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Baumgarten’s Philosophical Ethics

    A Critical Translation

    by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten ...
    Translated by John Hymers ...
    Series series Kant’s Sources in Translation
    Alexander Baumgarten's Ethica Philosophica (1740) served as a chief textbook of philosophical instruction in German universities for several decades, and was used by Immanuel Kant for his lectures on moral philosophy between 1759 and 1794. Now translated into English for the first time, John Hymers explores the extent of Baumgarten's influence on the development of German philosophy.Accompanied by ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Metaphysics

    A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials

    Translated by Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers ...
    by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten ...
    Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762), an influential German philosopher preceding Immanuel Kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics. Yet his manual on metaphysics was one of the chief textbooks of philosophical instruction in latter 18th-Century Germany. Originally published in Latin, Kant used the Metaphysics for nearly four decades as the basis for lectures on metaphysics, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Preparation for Natural Theology

    With Kant’s Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript

    Translated by Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers ...
    by Johann August Eberhard ...
    Series series Kant’s Sources in Translation
    Designed as a textbook for use in courses on natural theology and used by Immanuel Kant as the basis for his Lectures on The Philosophical Doctrine of Religion, Johan August Eberhard's Preparation for Natural Theology (1781) is now available in English for the first time.With a strong focus on the various intellectual debates and historically significant texts in late renaissance and early modern ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Baumgarten's Elements of First Practical Philosophy

    A Critical Translation with Kant's Reflections on Moral Philosophy

    by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Immanuel Kant ...
    Translated by Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers ...
    Series series Kant’s Sources in Translation
    This book presents the first English translation of Alexander Baumgarten's Initia Philosophiae Practicae Primae, the textbook Kant used in his lectures on moral philosophy.Originally published in Latin in 1760, the Initia contains a systematic, but original version of the universal practical philosophy first articulated by Christian Wolff. In his personal copy, Kant penned hundreds of pages of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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    Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics

    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

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    10 hours 5 min

    This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant.For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because of its impact on Kant's intellectual development, and because of the way it fundamentally informed the work of generations of German philosophers, including Moses ... Read more

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  • The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

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  • The Metaphysical Elements Of Ethics (Mobi Classics)

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