Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings

Patrick Frierson; Paul Guyer; Patrick Frierson

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511976018

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.

"...more accessible and more affordable, while maintaining the rigorous translations and editorial standards of the Cambridge Edition...."
--Colin McQuillan, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Philosophy in Review

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction
pp vii-xxxv

Chronology
pp xxxvi-xxxvii

Further reading
pp xxxviii-xli

Note on the texts
pp xlii-xlvi

“Thoughts on the Occasion of Mr. Johann Friedrich von Funk's Untimely Death” (1760)
pp 1-8

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764)
pp 9-62

Remarks in the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764–65)
pp 63-202

“Essay on the Maladies of the Head” (1764)
pp 203-218

Inquiry Concerning the Distinctness of the Principles of Natural Theology and Morality (1764)
pp 219-248

M. Immanuel Kant's Announcement of the Program of his Lectures for the Winter Semester, 1765–1766 (1765)
pp 249-260

Herder's Notes from Kant's Lectures on Ethics (1762–64)
pp 261-304

Selected notes and fragments from the 1760s
pp 305-337

Index
pp 338-348

Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
pp 349-351

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