Vorlesungen über die Kantische Philosophie. Altdorf: Monath, 1788.

(KANT) WILL, Georg Andreas

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First edition, from the earliest lectures on Kant to be given in Franconia. Distinctly uncommon: WorldCat locates 29 copies worldwide. Adickes 653. Georg Andreas Will (1727 98) began as a follower of Baumgarten, and while a student at Halle he received the personal encouragement of Christian Wolff. He returned to his native Altdorf and taught there for fifty years until his death. 'Will became a model in southern Germany, influencing figures such as the Catholic early Kantian Maternus Reuss. Nevertheless, Will understood himself simply as a neutral commentator: I do not want to be called a Kantian, but even less do I want to refute Kant … I only want to provide an idea of the Kantian philosophy (Vorlesungen, pp. 12 13). More meritorious than the difficult-to-understand and easy-to-misunderstand Critique of Pure Reason was for him the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, which he viewed as Kant s clearest and most valuable book' (Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 200 pp., contemporary speckled boards with paper spine label, worn at extremities, library label on pastedown, stamps on title verso (one showing through), light browning spreading from bottom corner (probably from a damp source), still a good copy with wide margins, uncut. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1631797168820

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Titel: Vorlesungen über die Kantische Philosophie. ...

Einband: Hardcover

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