Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason:

Background Source Materials

Edited and Translated by

Michael Walschots

(forthcoming)

Cambridge University Press

General Introduction

I. Pre-Kantian Moral Philosophy

1. Christian Wolff

                 Introduction

                 German Ethics (selections)

2. Christian August Crusius

Introduction

Guide to Living Rationally (selections)

II. Between the Critiques

3. Johann Friedrich Flatt

Introduction

Review of the Groundwork

4. Gottlob August Tittel

Introduction

On Kant’s Reform of Moral Science (selections)

5. Hermann Andreas Pistorius

Introduction

Review of Johann Schulze’s Elucidations of Professor Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

6. Hermann Andreas Pistorius

Introduction

Review of the Groundwork

7. Thomas Wizenmann

Introduction

To Herr Professor Kant

III. The Reception of the Critique of Practical Reason

8. Johann Georg Heinrich Feder

Introduction

Review of the Critique of Practical Reason

9. August Wilhelm Rehberg

Introduction

Review of the Critique of Practical Reason

10. Christian Garve

Introduction

‘On Patience’ (selections)

11. Hermann Andreas Pistorius

Introduction

Review of the Critique of Practical Reason

Christian Wolff's German Ethics:

New Essays

Edited by

Sonja Schierbaum

Michael Walschots

John Walsh

(forthcoming 2024)

Oxford University Press

Introduction – Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Walschots, and John Walsh

Part I. The German Ethics in Its Historical Context

1. Clemens Schwaiger - The Systematic Structure of Wolff’s German Ethics in Context

2. Frank Grunert - Natural Law as a Theory of Practical Philosophy: The Relationship Between Natural Law and Ethics in Christian Wolff’s Practical Philosophy

3. Ursula Goldenbaum - Wolff’s Powerful Concept of Perfection and its Roots

4. Stefanie Buchenau - Wolff’s Modern Stoicism: Ethics, Politics, and Cosmopolitanism

Part II. Metaphysical and Conceptual Foundations

5. John Walsh - Wolff on Obligation

6. Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero - Objective Morality: Wolff and the Impious Hypothesis

7. Emanuel Lanzini Stobbe - Is Christian Wolff's Practical Philosophy Eudaimonistic?

8. Timothy Rosenkoetter - Perfection and the Foundations of Wolff’s German Ethics

Part III. Duties and Agency

9. Paul Guyer - Perfectionism and Duties to Self in Wolff and Kant

10. Michael Walschots - Wolff on the Duty to Cognize Good and Evil

11. Stefano Bacin - Wolff, the Pursuit of Perfection, and What We Owe to Each Other: The Case of Veracity and Lying

12. Sonja Schierbaum - Can the Will Go Wrong on Its Own? Wolff’s Conception of a Deficit of the Will

Part IV. Method and Reception

13. Courtney Fugate - Wolff’s Ethical Experimentalism and its Roots in his German Ethics

14. Corey W. Dyck - Human Nature and Human Minds: Wolff’s Moral Anthropology

15. Paola Rumore - Secunda et adversa fortuna: Wolff and Meier on the Moral Relevance of Good Fortune and Misfortune

16. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet - Wolff and Crusius on the Duty to Love