Essay on Transcendental Philosophy

by Maimon, Salomon; Welchman, Alistair; Somers-Hall, Henry; Reglitz, Merten; Midgley, Nick

• ISBN13: 9781441113849
• ISBN10: 1441113843
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Salomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This is the first English translation of his principal work, first published in Berlin in 1790.

Table of Contents

Translators' Introduction Note on the Translation Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Matter, Form of Cognition, Form of Sensibility, Form of Understanding, Time and Space. 2. Sensibility, Imagination, Understanding, Pure A Priori Concepts of the Understanding or Categories, Schemata, Answering the Question Quid Juris, Answering the Question Quid Facti, Doubts about the Latter. 3. Ideas of the Understanding, Ideas of Reason, etc. 4. Subject and Predicate. The Determinable and the Determination. 5. Thing, Possible, Necessary, Ground, Consequence, etc. 6. Identity, Difference, Opposition, Reality, Logical and Transcendental Negation 7. Magnitude 8. Alteration, Change, etc. 9. Truth, Subjective, Objective, Logical, Metaphysical  10. On the I, Materialism, Idealism, Dualism, etc. Short Overview of the Whole Work My Ontology On Symbolic Cognition and Philosophical Language Notes & Clarifications Appendix I Letter from Maimon to Kant Appendix II Letter from Kant to Herz Appendix III Maimon Article from Berlin Journal for Enlightenment Appendix IV Newton's Introduction to 'The Quadrature of Curves' Glossary Bibliography Index