{"product_id":"the-principles-of-critical-philosophy","title":"The Principles of Critical Philosophy","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE SECOND WORK OF KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e KANT, Emmanuel; James Sigismund BECK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Principles of Critical Philosophy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLondon: Sold by J. Johnson, W. Richardson; Edinburgh: P. Hill, Manners and Miller; Hamburg: B. G. Hoffman, 1797\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8vo., recently rebound in half black cloth over marbled paper-covered boards; two contrasting green cloth labels lettered and lined in gilt to spine; new textured endpapers; lower edges untrimmed; pp. [vii], viii-lxxx, [iii], 4-454, [ii]; with a few small diagrams printed in text; the binding fine; internal pages lightly and evenly browned, some creases to pages and occasional small dampstains to edges; text a little rubbed in places, with occasional spots and some early manuscript corrections throughout, in an unknown hand; library stamp of the Public Library of Cincinnati to verso of title (sold with their knowledge, and with confirmation from the library that this title is no longer listed in the Cincinnati \u0026amp; Hamilton County Public Library catalogue), along with some pencil shelving notes; repeated to page XXI and 454; else a very good example of a very rare work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst English edition \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof a work which had previously appeared in German the previous year. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames [Jakob] Sigismund Beck (1761–1840) was born in Poland, and was the son of a priest who practiced in their home village of Liessau. It was when he enrolled at the University of Königsberg that he first became a student of Immanuel Kant and later devoted his academic career to studying his teacher’s writings. He became professor at the University of Halle, and at Kant’s insistence, he began to publish what would later become a three-volume set of ‘Explanatory Abstracts’ of Kant’s major writings. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eErläuternder Auszug aus den kritischen Schriften des Herrn Prof. Kant, auf Anrathen desselben \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eappeared between 1793 and 1796, and is still used today as a compendium of Kantian doctrine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe present volume therefore represents the first English edition of Beck’s insightful criticism, and as such is a very early translation of Kant’s philosophy into the English language. Kant’s three famous ‘critiques’; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1781), the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCritique of Practical Reason\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1788), and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCritique of the Power of Judgment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1790) are each based around the central concept of human autonomy, in which “human reason gives itself the moral law, which is our basis for belief in God, freedom, and immortality” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). In Beck’s exposition, he argues that Kant’s philosophy is primarily geared towards idealism - that knowledge of objects cannot exist outside the realm of human consciousness, and that the idea of God is a symbolic representation of the voice of conscience guiding from within. Beck’s seminal contribution is his ‘Doctrine of Standpoint’ which advocates for “a ‘reversal’ of the method of the Critique of Pure Reason and the elimination of the ‘thing-in-itself’ from Kant’s theoretical philosophy” (Forster). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn fact, it was the work of Beck, along with his contemporaries such as Karl Leonhard Reinhold and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which later led to the emergence of German Idealism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn important early introduction to Kantian thought. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eESTC T123243.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56704283541828,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/60602361.jpg?v=1777361673","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-principles-of-critical-philosophy","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}