Three Critiques, 3-volume Set: Vol. 1: Critique of Pure Reason; Vol. 2: Critique of Practical Reason; Vol. 3: Critique of Judgment (Hackett Classics)

With this volume, Werner Pluhar completes his work on Kant's three Critiques, an accomplishment unique among English language translators of Kant. At once accurate, fluent, and accessible, Pluhar's rendition of the Critique of Practical Reason meets the standards set in his widely respected translations of the Critique of Judgment (1987) and the Critique of Pure Reason (1996).Stephen Engstrom's Introduction discusses the place of the second Critique in Kant's critical philosophy, its relation to Kant's ethics, and its practical purpose and provides an illuminating outline of Kant's argument. Contents Translator's Preface Introduction 1. THE PLACE OF THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASONWITHIN KANT'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY 2. THE RELATION OF THE CRITIQUE OFPRACTICAL REASON TO KANT'S ETHICS 3. THE PRACTICAL PURPOSE OF THECRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON 4. SHOWING THE PRACTICALITY OF PuRE REASON A. The Idea of a Principle of Practical Reason (§ 1) B. Theorems about Practical Principles (§§2-4) C. Practical Laws and Freedom (§§5-6) D. The Basic Law of Pure Practical Reason (§7) E. Autonomy and Freedom (§8) 5. CAN THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLE OFPRACTICAL REASON BE JUSTIFIED? 6. THE EFFECTS OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON A. Defining the Concept of an Object of Practical Reason B. The Subjective Effects of Pure Practical Reason 7. THE HIGHEST Goon AND THEANTINOMY OF PRACTICAL REASON 8. CONCLUSION PREFACE INTRODUCTION On the Idea of aCritique of Practical Reason PART I DOCTRINE OF THE ELEMENTS OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON BOOK I ANALYTIC OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON Chapter I On the Principles of Pure Practical Reason §1 EXPLICATION §2 THEOREM I §3 THEOREM II §4 THEOREM III §5 PROBLEM I §6 PROBLEM II §7 BASIC LAW OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON §8 THEOREM IV I On the Deduction of the Principles of Pure Practical Reason II On the Authority of Pure Reasonin Its Practical Use to an ExpansionThat Is Not Possible for It in ItsSpeculative Use Chapter II On the Concept of an Object ofPure Practical Reason On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment Chapter III On the Incentives ofPure Practical Reason Critical Examination of the Analyticof Pure Practical Reason BOOK II DIALECTIC OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON Chapter I On a Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason as Such Chapter II On a Dialectic of Pure Reason inDetermining the Conceptof the Highest Good I THE ANTINOMY OF PRACTICAL REASON II CRITICAL ANNULMENT OF THE ANTINOMYOF PRACTICAL REASON III ON THE PRIMACY OF PURE PRACTICAL REASONIN ITS LINKAGE WITH SPECULATIVE REASON IV THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL,AS A POSTULATE OF PURE PR ACTICAL REASON V THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, AS A POSTULATE OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON VI ON THE POSTULATES OFPURE PRACTICAL REASON AS SUCH VII HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK AN EXPANSION OFPURE REASON FOR A PRACTICAL AIM WITHOUTTHEREBY ALSO EXPANDING ITSCOGNITION AS SPECULATIVE VIII ON ASSENT FROM A NEED OF PURE REASON IX ON THE WISELY COMMENSURATE PROPORTION OF THE HUMAN BEING'S COGNITIVE POWERS TO HIS PRACTICAL VOCATION PART II DOCTRINE OF THE METHOD OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX

Pluhar (Pennsylvania State U.-Fayette) offers a new translation of the 1788 Kritik der praktischen Vernunft with many footnotes referring to other passages and works by Kant and to works by others. Stephen Engstrom (U. of Pittsburgh) introduces the text. Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d. ed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

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A translation of Kant's Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, completed by H. W. Cassirer in 1976 (his first draft was written 30 years earlier), and lightly prepared for publication posthumously by editors G. Heath King and Ronald Weitzman. Cassirer aimed to provide a technically accurate rendering of Kant's text which is attentive to the spirit as well as the letter of Kant's original, while showing the movement of his thinking as it unfolds. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Kant's 1788 follow-up to his epochal Critique of Pure Reason analyzes the practical aspects of reason, which is concerned with will, or self-determination. He argues that the freedom of the will becomes the practical necessity of determining how one shall lead one's life, with the fundamental principle of morality being the "categorical imperative" stating that one should be obligated to act so that any moral action could be made into a universal law binding all mankind