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328 KANT. MetapJiysic which may present itself as Science, 1783, had given a popular form to the critical doctrine of knowledge, it was followed by the critical philosophy of ethics in the Foundation of the Metaphysics of Ethics, 1785, and the Critique of Practical Reason, 1788; by the critical aesthetics and teleology in the Critique of Judgment, 1790 ; and by the critical philosophy of religion in Religion within the Limits of Reason Only, 1793* (consisting of four essays, of which the first, " Of Radical Evil," had already appeared in the Berliner Monatsschrift in 1792). The Metaphysical Elements of Natural Science, 1786, and the Metaphysics of Ethics, lygy (in two parts, " Metaphysical Elements of the Theory of Right," and " Metaphysical Elements of the Theory of Virtue "), are devoted to the development of the system. The year 1798 brought two more larger works, the Conflict of the Faculties and the Anthropology. Of the reviews, that on Herder's Ideen may be mentioned, and among the minor essays, the following: Idea for a Universal History in a Cosmopolitan Sense, A nswer to the Question : What is Illumination ? both in 1784 ; What does it mean to Orient oneself in Thought ? 1 786 ; O71 the Use of Teleolog- ical Principles in Philosophy, 1788 ; On a Discovery according to which all Recent Criticism of Pure Reason is to be su- perseded by a Previous One, 1 790 ; On the Progress of Met- aphysics since the Time of Wolff ; On Philosophy in General, The End of all Things, 1794; On Everlasting Peace, 1795. Kant's Logic was published by Jasche in 1800; his Physical Geography and his Observations on Pedagogics by F. T. Rink in 1803 ; his lectures on the Philosophical Theory of Religion (1817 ; 2d. ed., 1830) and on Metaphysics (1821 ; cf. Benno Erdmann in the Philosophische Monatshefte, vol. xix. 1883, p. 129 seq., and vol. xx. 1884, p. 65 seq^ by Politz. If we may judge by the specimens given by Reicke in the/4//- pretissische Monatsschrift, 1882-84, and by Krause himself,f

  • This publication was the occasion of a conflict between Kant and the

censorship concerning the right of free religious inquiry ; cf. Dilthey in the Archivfiir Geschuhte der Philosophie, vol. iii. 1890, pp. 418-450. I A. Krause: /. Kant wider K. Fiscfur, zum ersten Male mil Hulfedes verloren geweserun Kantischen Hauptwerkes vertheidigt, 1884 (in reply, K. Fischer, Das Streber- und Gr tinder thum in der Litteratur, 1884); also, Das naehgelassene Werk J. Kants, mit Belegen populdr-wiisensckaftlich dargestellt, 1888.