Immanuel Kant - Philosophical Works (36 books)

IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) was a German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy. He argued that human concepts and categories structure our view of the world and its laws, and that reason is the source of morality. The free and proper exercise of reason by the individual was a theme both of the Age of Enlightenment, and of Kant's approaches to the various problems of philosophy.

His major work, the CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (1781), aimed to bring reason together with experience and to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. He published other important works on ethics, religion, law, aesthetics, astronomy, and history, including the CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON (1788), the METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (1797), dealing with ethics, and the CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), which examines aesthetics and teleology. All these works and many more are included in this collection.

Kant's ideas influenced many thinkers in Germany during his lifetime, and he moved philosophy beyond the debate between the rationalists and empiricists. His thought continues to have a major influence in contemporary thought, especially in fields such as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.


All the following books are in PDF format of varying quality:

* ANTHROPOLOGY FROM A PRAGMATIC POINT OF VIEW (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Translated and edited by Robert B. Louden, with an Introduction by Manfred Kuehn.

* ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY, AND EDUCATION (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Edited by Gunter Zoller and Robert B. Louden.

* THE CONFLICT OF THE FACULTIES (Der Streit der Fakultäten) (Abaris, 1979). Translated with an Introduction by Mary J. Gregor.

* CORRESPONDENCE (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Translated and edited by Arnulf Zweig.

* CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (Hackett, 1987). Translated with an Introduction by Werner S. Pluhar.

* CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (Oxford World's Classics, 2007). Translated by James Creed Meredith; revised, edited, and introduced by Nicholas Walker.

* CRITIQUE OF THE POWER OF JUDGMENT (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Translated Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews; translated by Paul Guyer.

* CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON (Hackett, 2002). Translated by Werner S. Pluhar, with an Introduction by Stephen Engstrom.

* CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Translated and edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood.

* CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON: Unified Edition (Hackett, 1996). Translated by Werner S. Pluhar, with an Introduction by Patricia Kitcher.

* GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (Hackett, 1993). Third edition. Translated by James W. Ellington.

* GROUNDWORK FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (Yale University Press, 2002). Translated and edited by Allen W. Wood, with essays by J. B. Schneewind, Marcia Bacon, Shelly Kagan, and Allen W. Wood.

* GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Revised edition. Translated and edited by Mary Gregor, with an Introduction by Christine M. Korsgaard.

* GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS: A German-English Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Translated by Mary Gregor, revised by Jens Timmermann.

* KANT AND THE CONCEPT OF RACE: Late 18th-Century Writings (State University Press of New York Press, 2013). Translated and edited by Jon M. Mikkelsen.

* LECTURES ON ETHICS (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Translated by Peter Heath; Edited by Peter Heath and J. B. Schneewind.

* LECTURES ON LOGIC (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Translated by J. Michael Young.

* LECTURES ON METAPHYSICS (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Translated and edited by Karl Ameriks and Steve Naragon.

* LECTURES ON PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY (Cornell University Press, 1978). Translated by Allen W. Wood and Gertrude M. Clark, with Introduction and Notes by Allen W. Wood.

* THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHICS (Arc Manor, 2008). Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott.

* METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF JUSTICE: Part I of the Metaphysics of Morals (Hackett, 1999). Second edition. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by John Ladd.

* THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (Cambridge University Press, 1991). Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Mary Gregor.

* NOTES AND FRAGMENTS (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Edited by Paul Guyer; translated by Curtis Bowman, Paul Guyer, and Frederick Rauscher.

* OBSERVATIONS ON THE FEELING OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME & OTHER WRITINGS (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Edited by Patrick Frierson and Paul Guyer, with an Introduction by Patrick Frierson.

* OPUS POSTUMUM (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Translated by Eckart Förster and Michael Rosen; edited with an Introduction and Notes by Eckart Förster.

* PHILOSOPHICAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1759-99 (University of Chicago Press, 1967). Edited and translated by Arnulf Zweig.

* POLITICAL WRITINGS (Cambridge University Press, 1991). Edited by H. S. Reiss.

* PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Translated and edited by Mary Gregor, with a General Introduction by Allen Wood.

* PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSICS, with Selections from the "Critique of Pure Reason" (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Revised edition. Translated and edited by Gary Hatfield.

* RELIGION AND RATIONAL THEOLOGY (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Translated and edited by Allen W. Wood and George di Giovanni.

* RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF MERE REASON & Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Translated and edited by Allen W. Wood and George di Giovanni, with an Introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams.

* RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF BARE REASON (Hackett, 2009). Translated by Werner S. Pluhar, with an Introduction by Stephen R. Palmquist.

* THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY AFTER 1781 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Translated Gary Hatfield, Michael Friedman, Henry Allison, and Peter Heath; edited by Henry Allison and Peter Heath.

* THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY, 1755-1770 (Cambridge University Press, 1992). Translated and edited by David Walford in collaboration with Ralf Meerbote.

* TOWARD PERPETUAL PEACE & Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History (Yale University Press, 2006). Edited with an Introduction by Pauline Kleingold; translated by David L. Colclasure, with essays by Jeremy Waldon, Michael W. Doyle and Allen W. Wood.

* UNIVERSAL NATURAL HISTORY AND THEORY OF THE HEAVENS (Richer Resources, 2009). Translated by Ian Johnston.