Excerpt from the Doctrine of reason / Georg Friedrich Meier ; translated by Aaron Bunch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meier, Georg Friedrich, 1718-1777, author.

Contributor:

Bunch, Aaron, translator.

Series:

Kant's Sources in Translation

Standardized Title:

Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of--History--18th century.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Logic--History--18th century.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"First published in 1752, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason [Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre] was written as a textbook and widely adopted by many 18th-century German instructors, but most notably by Immanuel Kant. For forty years Kant used the Excerpts as the basis of his lectures on logic making extensive notes on his copy of the text. More than a text on formal logic, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason covers epistemology and the elements of thought and language Meier believed made human understanding possible. Working across the two dominant intellectual forces in modern philosophy, the rationalist and the empiricist traditions, Meier's work was also instrumental to the introduction of English philosophy into Germany; he was among the first German philosophers to study John Locke's philosophy in depth. This complete English translation of Meier's influential textbook is introduced by Riccardo Pozzo and enhanced by a glossary and a concordance correlating Meier's arguments to Kant's logic lectures, the related Reflexionen and the Jäsche Logic of 1800 - the text considered of fundamental importance to Kant's philosophy. For scholars of Kant, Locke and the German Enlightenment, this valuable translation and its accompanying material presents the richest source of information available on Meier and his 18th-century work."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

First main part of learned cognition

Second main part of the method of learned cognition

Third main part of learned exposition

Fourth main part of the character of a learned man.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474229333

1474229336

9781474229340

1474229344

OCLC:

1058958954