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.
JOHN OSSORY.
THE PALACE, KILKENNY,
_January 6, 1914_.
GLOSSARY OF KANT’S PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS
Absicht; _design_.
Achtung; _respect_.
Affekt; _affection_.
Angenehm; _pleasant_.
Anschauung; _intuition_.
Attribut; _attribute_.
Aufklärung; _enlightenment_.
Begehr; _desire_.
Begriff; _concept_.
Beschaffenheit; _constitution_ or _characteristic_.
Bestimmen; _to determine_.
Darstellen; _to present_.
Dasein; _presence_ or _being_.
Eigenschaft; _property_.
Empfindung; _sensation_.
Endzweck; _final purpose_.
Erkenntniss; _cognition_ or _knowledge_.
Erklärung; _explanation_.
Erscheinung; _phenomenon_.
Existenz; _existence_.
Fürwahrhalten; _belief_.
Gebiet; _realm_.
Gefühl; _feeling_.
Gegenstand; _object_.
Geist; _spirit_.
Geniessen; _enjoyment_.
Geschicklichkeit; _skill_.
Geschmack; _Taste_.
Gesetzmässigkeit; _conformity to law_.
Gewalt; _dominion_ or _authority_.
Glaube; _faith_.
Grenze; _bound_.
Grundsatz; _fundamental proposition_ or _principle_.
Hang; _propension_.
Idee; _Idea_.
Leidenschaft; _passion_.
Letzter Zweck; _ultimate purpose_.
Lust; _pleasure_.
Meinen; _opinion_.
Neigung; _inclination_.
Objekt; _Object_.
Prinzip; _principle_.
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