Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other WritingsThis 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. |
Contents
Thoughts on the Occasion of Mr Johann Friedrich von Funks Untimely Death | 3 |
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime | 11 |
Remarks in the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime | 65 |
Essay on the Maladies of the Head | 205 |
Inquiry Concerning the Distinctness of the Principles of Natural Theology and Morality | 221 |
M Immanuel Kants Announcement of the program of his Lectures for the Winter Semester 17651766 | 251 |
Common terms and phrases
Academy Edition accordance actions agreeable Anthropology appearance arises Beautiful and Sublime become Cambridge Cato the Younger certainty character charm chimerical cognition concept concern David Hume delusion drive Epicurus ethics everything evil example finer feeling footnote former freedom French friendship German ground Groundwork happiness Hence Heraclitus honor human nature ideal illusion Immanuel Kant immediately inclination indemonstrable Inserted sheet judge judgment kind Later addition Latin latter lectures margin marriage material principles mathematics means merely metaphysics mind moral feeling moral philosophy Moses Mendelssohn motivating nations Natural Theology necessity needs never noble object obligation Observations Obverse one's oneself opulence passion perfection person pleasure presupposes principles qualities reason regard relation religion Remarks representation respect Reverse Rischmüller's Rousseau rule self-interest sensation sense sentiment sexual simplicity soul sublime taste things translated true truth understanding University of Königsberg University Press vanity virtue woman women