Lectures on Metaphysics (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) Paperback - October 1, 2001

by Karl P. Ameriks

The purpose of the Cambridge Edition is to offer translations of the best modern German edition of Kant's work in a uniform format suitable for Kant scholars. When complete (14 volumes are currently envisaged) the edition should include all of Kant's published writings and a generous selection from the unpublished writings such as the Opus postumum, handschriftliche Nachlass, lectures, and correspondence. This volume contains the first translation into English of notes from Kant's lectures on metaphysics. These lectures, dating from the 1760s to the 1790s, touch on all the major topics and phases of Kant's philosophy. As is standard with the volumes in the Cambridge Edition there is an extensive editorial apparatus, including extensive linguistic and explanatory notes, a detailed subject index, and glossaries of key terms.

Genres: Philosophy

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Karl P. Ameriks was an American philosopher. He was the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews

[Shawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are kind of crib notes based on the lectures but I found they were clear, concise and made sense.

[ROC · Rating 4 out of 5]

The thoroughness and exertion in Kant's work is astounding, and to see it develop into the post-critical period is near otherworldly. Reading the note variations really help to re-enforce the vast number of definitions and categories outlined in his Ontology and Cosmology [physica rationalis, psychologia rationalis]. It also serves as a nice refresher course for his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

A word of warning, I walked into this having already read my fair share of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. I would have been lost if not acquainted with the basic understandings of substance and the varieties of epistemic and metaphysical modality.

Will certainly re-read.
Looking forward to tackling the COPR.

[Virginia · Rating 5 out of 5]

To be honest/clear, I only read until the end of the Metaphysik Mongrovius, but I'm adding it now because I'll finish it at some point (have to return it to the library before then though).

[Devon · Rating 3 out of 5]

i save this for the days i feel like i can really "pay attention"