Author(s): Alexander Baumgarten
Edition: 1
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 471
City: London
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Metaphysics
Title
Copyright
Also available from Bloomsbury
Dedication
Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Introduction to the Translation
Introduction
1 Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–62) and Georg Friedrich Meier (1718–77): A Historical Sketch
2 The Philosophical Context of the Metaphysics
3 Kant’s Handwritten Notes to the Metaphysics
4 Notes on this Translation
Part 2 The Translation. Alexander Baumgarten’s Metaphysics
Johann August Eberhard’s Preface to the Second German Edition (1783)
Georg Friedrich Meier’s Preface to the First German Translation (1766)
Preface of the Third Edition (1750)
Preface of the Second Edition (1743)
To the Listener of Good Will [Preface to the First Edition] (1739)
Synopsis
Prolegomena to Metaphysics
Part I: Ontology
Part II: Cosmology
Part III: Psychology
Part IIII: Natural theology
Index to the Paragraphs of the Metaphysics
Part 3 Ancillary Materials
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Textual Variants
General Index
