Logik (offered with) Zur logik und metaphysik
Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1920; 1921. 2 vols. 8vo. xxviii, 171; xxx, 169 pp. I: Third edition; II: Second edition. I: Original printed wrappers. A stellar copy, with none of the foxing normally found in this book. II: Original printed wrappers; also in excellent condition. Item #16163
I: Third edition of the textbook of logic that Kant used in his university lectures revised by Professor Kinkel in 1905. Kant had, since 1765, regularly given lectures on logic, though he never prepared his own handbook for publication. His notes and explanations (of, for the most part, Meier’s logic textbook of 1752) were given to his colleague Gottlob Benjamin Jasche, who in 1800 published Immanuel Kant’s Logic / Handbook for Lectures. Kinkel’s edition begins with an introduction where he dwells a great deal on the relation between formal logic and transcendental logic, commenting and broadening the concepts which were presented in the Critique of pure reason. This edition has a very useful index of name and terms.
II: Second edition of a collection of Kant’s minor writings on logic and metaphysics that the author put it into a chronological order for the first time. Two main Latin dissertations (1755 and 1770) are presented here in a very accurate German translation.
Kant (1724-1804), considered the greatest philosopher of the eighteenth century, wrote the most influential work in the history of philosophy, Critique of pure reason, in 1781. He conceives logic as the science of understanding and despite its central importance for his philosophical system, the philosopher didn’t publish a separate work on logic. Jäsche (1762-1842) was Kant’s pupil and he is remembered primarily as a popularizer of Kant’s work as well as the editor of Kant’s logic lectures [1800]. Vorländer (1860-1928) was a German neo-Kantian philosopher. His work Immanuel Kant, Man and work (1924) is considered the best intellectual biography of Kant.
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