Letters on the Kantian philosophy / Karl Leonhard Reinhold ; edited by Karl Ameriks ; translated by James Hebbeler.

Reinhold's 'Letters' provides a helpful introduction to Kant's philosophy and an explanation of how that philosophy can be understood as an appropriate Enlightenment solution to the 'pantheism dispute' which dominated thought in the era of German Idealism.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Reinhold, Karl Leonhard, 1758-1823
Other Authors: Ameriks, Karl, 1947-, Hebbeler, James
Other title:Briefe �uber die kantische Philosophie. English
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. The need for a Critique of Reason; 2. The result of the Kantian philosophy on thequestion of God's existence; 3. The result of the Critique of Reason concerning the necessary connection between morality and religion; 4. On the elements and the previous course of conviction in the basic truths of religion; 5. The result of the Critique of Reason concerning the future life; 6. Continuation of the preceding letter: the united interests of religion and morality in the clearing away of the metaphysical ground for cognition of a future life; 7. A sketch of a history of reason's psychological concept of a simple thinking substance; 8. Continuation of the preceding letter: the master key to the rational psychology of the Greeks; Appendix: the major additions in the 1790 edition.