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Michael Walschots, Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason: Background and Source Materials, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 314pp., $110 (hbk), ISBN 9781108479981.
Reviewed by Kate Moran, Brandeis University
In Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason: Background and Source Materials, Michael Walschots has collected and translated a number of texts that provide helpful context for Kant’s moral philosophy. The book consists of three main parts: the first includes texts that precede and inform the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals—selections from Christian Wollf’s German Ethics (1720) and the Introduction to Christian August Crusius’s Guide to Living Rationally(1744). The second section, covering texts published between the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason, includes selections from several important reviews of the Groundwork by Johann Friedrich Flatt, Gottlob August Tittel, and Hermann Andreas Pistorius along with Pistorius’s remarks (1786) on Johann Schulz’s review of the Critique of Pure Reason, and Thomas Wizenmann’s 1787 essay…
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