A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (Midway Reprint)

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Cover A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason Title Copyright Foreword Note on the Citations Table of Contents PART I I The Writing of the “Critique of Practical Reason” 1 Introduction 2 The Deferred Plan To Write a Metaphysics of Morals 3 The Decision To Write the Critique of Practical Reason II The Limits of Theoretical Reason 1 Introduction 2 The Problem of the Critique of Pure Reason 3 The “Copernican Revolution” 4 Theoretical and Speculative Reason 5 The Third Antinomy 6 Transition from the Problematic to the Assertoric Judgment of Freedom III Thought, Action, and Practical Reason 1 Two Aspects of Conduct 2 Conative and Cognitive Elements in Action 3 Practical Reason and Will 4 Pure Practical Reason IV Name, Purpose, and Structure of the “Critique”; Commentary on Preface and Introduction 1 Introduction 2 Title of the Book 3 The Purposes of the Book 4 The Unity of Theoretical and Practical Reason 5 How Is a Synthetic a Priori Practical Proposition Possible? 6 Relation to the Metaphysics of Morals 7 The Structure of the Book 8 The Polemics of the Preface PART II V Survey of the Analytic of Practical Reason 1 Meaning of the Term “Analytic” 2 The Structure of the Analytic 3 The Problems of the Analytic 4 Division of the Commentary on the Analytic 5 Summary of Chapter I, §§ 1-8 VI The Analytic of Empirical Practical Reason. I. Formal Considerations; Commentary on § 1 1 Empirical Practical Reason 2 Practical Principles 3 Rules 4 Maxims 5 Are There Empirical Practical Laws? 6 Hypothetical Imperatives 7 Conclusion VII The Analytic of Empirical Practical Reason. II. Material Considerations; Commentary on §§ 2, 3, and Part of 8 1 Introduction 2 Desire 3 Pleasure 4 The Lower Faculty of Desire 5 Maxims of the Lower Faculty of Desire 6 Happiness 7 Egoism 8 Heteronomy VIII The “Metaphysical Deduction” of the Moral Law; Commentary on §§ 4, 5, 6, 7, and Part of 8 1 The Idea of a “Metaphysical Deduction” 2 Principal Features of the Moral Experience 3 First Approximation to the Principle 4 The Three Maxims in Moral Decision 5 Definition of the Principle 6 Autonomy IX Practical Concepts and Judgment; Commentary on Analytic, Chapter II 1 Introduction 2 Principle, Concept, and Judgment 3 The Concepts of Good and Evil 4 The Categories of Practical Reason 5 The Table of the Categories of Freedom 6 The Categories of Quantity 7 The Categories of Quality 8 The Categories of Relation 9 The Categories of Modality 10 The Typic of Pure Practical Judgment X The “Transcendental Deduction” of the Principle of Pure Practical Reason; Commentary on § 7 and Ak., 42-50 (Abbott, 131-40) 1 Introduction 2 The “Fact of Pure Reason” 3 The Deduction XI Freedom 1 Introduction 2 Two Conceptions of Will and Freedom 3 Kant’s Recapitulation of the Argument of the First Critique 4 Freedom as a Theoretical Idea 5 Resolution of the Third Antinomy 6 Practical Freedom 7 Criticism of This Doctrine 8 Freedom as an Actor-Concept; Spontaneity 9 Freedom as Supreme Legislation; Autonomy 10 The Synthesis of the Two Conceptions 11 Summary 12 Moral Evil 13 Freedom and Creation 14 Freedom as a Postulate XII The “Aesthetic” of Pure Practical Reason; Commentary on Analytic, Chapter III; Part of Dialectic; and Methodology 1 The Psychological and the Ethical Problem 2 A Different but Related Problem 3 Some Earlier Attempts at an Answer 4 Incentives 5 Desire and Pleasure 6 The Genesis of Respect 7 An Alleged Inconsistency 8 The Moral Feeling 9 Duty and Personality 10 Virtue 11 Moral Satisfaction 12 Moral Education PART III XIII The Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason; Commentary on Dialectic, Chapters I and II (except Secs. IV and V) 1 What Dialectic Is 2 The Dialectical Illusions of Pure Practical Reason 3 The Concept of the Highest Good 4 The Antinomy of Pure Practical Reason 5 The Primacy of Pure Practical over Theoretical Reason 6 The Postulates of Pure Practical Reason 7 Belief and Ignorance XIV The Postulates of Pure Practical Reason; Commentary on Dialectic, Chapter II, Sections IV and V; and Conclusion 1 Introduction 2 The Structure of a Moral Argument 3 Ideas and Postulates 4 The Immortality of the Soul 5 The Existence of God 6 Morality and Religion 7 The Two Awesome Things BIBLIOGRAPHY I Texts of “Kritik der praktischen Vernunft” II Translations of the “Critique of Practical Reason” III Translations of Other Works by Kant as Cited in Commentary IV Studies of Kant INDEXES I Index of Passages Cited from “Critique of Practical Reason” II Index of Names and Subjects