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Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason:
Background Source Materials
Edited and Translated by
Michael Walschots
(forthcoming)
Cambridge University Press
Table of Contents
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
Table of Contents
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