Excerpt from Outlines of Metaphysic: Dictated Portions of the Lectures of Hermann Lotze It affords me, therefore, the pleasure that comes from the hope of being useful to a wide circle of persons, to announce that I have arranged to trans late and edit several, if not all, of those little books called 'outlines' which have been given to the pub lic in Germany since the death of their' lamented author. These 'outlines' cover the entire ground of Lotze's mature teaching in the University upon the subjects of Logic, Metaphysic, Philosophy of Nature, Psychology, festhetics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and History 'of German Philosophy since Kant. A word of explanation as to the origin of these books will suffice to assure the reader that he is to be put into com munication with the thoughts of this philosopher in a way which he can trust both as to substance and form of expressmn. The German from which the translations are to be made consists of the dic tated portions of his latest lectures (at Gottingen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Hermann Lotze was a german philosopher and logician who lived and worked in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He contributed a great deal to the philosophy of science and was well-versed not only in philosophy but also in medicine and biology. His book is the text of several of his lectures where he explained the ideas he had about the rules governing the universe.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is a towering figure of modern Western philosophy, someone whose thought continues to exert an influence across all areas of the discipline. His work is characterized by both breadth and unity: he writes powerfully about mind, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, mathematics, natural science, ethics, politics, aesthetics, education, and more. And across those areas, his work is concerned with defending a view of human beings and their place in nature according to which our own reason enables us to discover and uphold the laws of nature and freedomthat is, to think for ourselves. The Oxford Handbook of Kant provides an up-to-date account of recent scholarship on Kant's philosophy, taking in all areas of his writings. It will be essential reading for students and researchers who want to think for themselves about the topics he wrote with such insight. The individual chapters to this Handbook each provide a scholarly analysis and assessment of some aspect of Kant's thought, and the collection ranges across all the areas to which Kant contributed. It collectively presents a picture of where the study of Kant's philosophy finds itself at this point in the twenty-first century.