Baumgarten's Elements of First Practical Philosophy

A Critical Translation with Kant's Reflections on Moral Philosophy

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Immanuel Kant, Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781350276178
• eBook ISBN: 9781474282666
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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 notes and sketches that document his relation to this earlier tradition. Translating these extensive elucidations into English, together with Kant's notes on the text, this translation offers a complete resource to Kant's reading of the Initia. To facilitate further study, first-time translations of elucidatory passages from G. F. Meier and Wolff are also included, alongside a German-English-Latin glossary. The translators' introduction provides a biography of Baumgarten, a discussion of the importance of the Initia, its relation to Wolff's and Meier's universal practical philosophy and its role in Kant's lectures. By shedding new light on the arguments of Kant's mature works and offering insights into his pre-Critical moral thought, Elements of First Practical Philosophy reveals why Baumgarten's work is essential for understanding the background to Kant's philosophy.

Index

1 Corinithians here

Abbt, Thomas here

abnegation here, here

absence here, here, here

absolution here, here

abstain (to) here, here, here, here

abstraction here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here

accident here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

account (to) here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here

Achenwall, Gottfried here

act here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

binding here–here, here, here

elicited here, here, here, here, here

juridical here

mastered here, here, here, here, here

act, according to: a priori principles here

best conscience here, here

divine will here

internal universally valid will here

legislative will here

action

bad per se here

commanded here

conforming to a law here,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents 
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Translators’ Introduction
• Baumgarten’s Elements of First Practical Philosophy
• Index to the Paragraphs of the Elements of First Practical Philosophy,Prepared by Anton Bernhard Thiele
• Kant’s Reflections on Moral Philosophy
• Glossary
• Works Cited
• General Index
• Imprint