Metaphysics : A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials (Paperback)

Part I: Introduction to the Translation Introduction 1. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) and Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777): A historical sketch 2. The philosophical context of the Metaphysics 3. Kant's Handwritten Notes to the Metaphysics 4. Notes on this translation Part II: The Translation Alexander Baumgarten's Metaphysics Johann August Eberhard's Preface to the Second German Edition (1783) Georg Friedrich Meier's Preface to the First German Translation (1766) Preface of the third edition (1750) Preface of the second edition (1743) To the listener of good will [preface to the first edition](1739) Synopsis Prolegomena to Metaphysics Part I: Ontology Prologomena Chapter I. The universal internal predicates of a being Chapter II. The internal disjunctive predicates of a being Chapter III. The relative predicates of a being Part II: Cosmology Prologomena Chapter I. The concept of the world Chapter II. The parts of the universe Chapter III. The perfection of the universe Part III: Psychology Prolegomena Chapter I. Empirical psychology Chapter II. Rational psychology Part IIII: Natural theology Prolegomena Chapter I. The concept of God Chapter II. The operations of God Part III: Ancillary Materials Glossary Latin-English English-Latin Notes and Textual variants Selected Bibliography Index to the paragraphs of the Metaphysics General Index