This is the most complete English edition of Kant's correspondence that has ever been compiled. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical, and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant's philosophical development. On another level they expose quirks and foibles, and reveal a good deal about Kant's friendships and philosophical battles with some of the prominent thinkers of the time: Herder, Hamann, Mendelssohn, and Fichte.
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This is the most complete English edition of Kant's correspondence that has ever been compiled. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical, and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant's philosophical development. On another level they expose quirks and foibles, and reveal a good deal about Kant's friendships and philosophical battles with some of the prominent thinkers of the time: Herder, Hamann, Mendelssohn, and Fichte.
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. His comprehensive and profound thinking on aesthetics, ethics, and knowledge has had an immense impact on all subsequent philosophy.
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Marcus Herz, Herr Professor, Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann Schultz, Berliner Monatsschrift, Salomon Maimon, Critique of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant, Herr Reinhold, Kant's Werke, Herr Mendelssohn, Herr Beck, Maria von Herbert, Academy of Sciences, Court Chaplain Schultz, Herr Kanter, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, New York, Berlin Academy, Frederick the Great, Herr von Swedenborg, Kant's Briefwechsel, Herr Jakobi, Herr Lambert New!
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pantheism controversy, esteemed sir, dearest sir, unnamed one, most devoted servant, censorship commission, original attribution, formative impulse, priori cognitions, opus postumum, noble sir, intensive magnitude, book merchant, extensive magnitude, synthetic unity, see his letter, philosophical faculty, analytic judgments, most obedient servant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marcus Herz, Herr Professor, Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann Schultz, Berliner Monatsschrift, Salomon Maimon, Critique of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant, Herr Reinhold, Kant's Werke, Herr Mendelssohn, Herr Beck, Maria von Herbert, Academy of Sciences, Court Chaplain Schultz, Herr Kanter, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, New York, Berlin Academy, Frederick the Great, Herr von Swedenborg, Kant's Briefwechsel, Herr Jakobi, Herr Lambert New!
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 67 pages
- The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 16 pages
- Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Torchbooks) by Immanuel Kant on 13 pages
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on 11 pages
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 11 pages
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