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. 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. Meier and Wolff are also included, alongside a German-English-Latin glossary. To facilitate further study, first-time translations of elucidatory passages from G.

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. In his personal copy, Kant penned hundreds of pages of notes and sketches that document his relation to this earlier tradition. CiNii Books author ID: DA00241798 SBN author ID: BVEV000004 Open Library ID: OL76605A Union List of Artist Names ID: 500314012 Europeana entity: agent/base/145548. on Poetry) and Aesthetica (Aesthetics), which consists of two books and is. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (J May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. Originally published in Latin in 1760, the Initia contains a systematic, but original version of the universal practical philosophy first articulated by Christian Wolff. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (17141762) is known in intellectual history.

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. In intellectual history,Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten,who was born on July 17, 1714,inBerlin and died on May27, 1762,inFrankfurt an der Oder,isknown as the last prominent representative of Wolffian scholasticphilosophy.

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