Kant's Critique of Judgement · Immanuel Kant
J. H. BERNARD.
TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, _May 24, 1892_. * * * * * More than twenty-one years have passed since the first edition of this Translation was published, and during that time much has been written, both in Germany and in England, on the subject of Kant’s _Critique of Judgement_. In particular, the German text has been critically determined by the labours of Professor Windelband, whose fine edition forms the fifth volume of Kant’s Collected Works as issued by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (Berlin, 1908). It will be indispensable to future students. An excellent account of the significance, in the Kantian system, of the _Urtheilskraft_, by Mr. R. A. C. Macmillan, appeared in 1912; and Mr. J. C. Meredith has published recently an English edition of the _Critique of Aesthetical Judgement_, with notes and essays, dealing with the philosophy of art, which goes over the ground very fully. Some critics of my first edition took exception to the clumsiness of the word “representation” as the equivalent of _Vorstellung_, but I have made no change in this respect, as it seems to me (and so far as I have observed to others who have worked on the _Critique of Judgement_), that it is necessary to preserve in English the relation between the noun _Vorstellung_ and the verb _vorstellen_, if Kant’s reasoning is to be exhibited clearly. I have, however, abandoned the attempt to preserve the word _Kritik_ in English, and have replaced it by _Critique_ or _criticism_, throughout. The other changes that have been made are mere corrections or emendations of faulty or obscure renderings, with a few additional notes. I have left my original Introduction as it was written in 1892, without attempting any fresh examination of the problems that Kant set himself. THE PALACE, KILKENNY, _January 6, 1914_.
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