Comprehensive Commentary on Kant's Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason

Summary

Palmquist s Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant s Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar s translation, interspersed with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an original interpretation of Kant s work. * Offers definitive, sentence-level commentary on Kant s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason * Presents a thoroughly revised version of Pluhar s translation of the full text of Kant s Religion, including detailed notes comparing the translation with the others still in use today * Identifies most of the several hundred changes Kant made to the second (1794) edition and unearths evidence that many major changes were responses to criticisms of the first edition * Provides both a detailed overview and original interpretation of Kant s work on the philosophy of religion * Demonstrates that Kant s arguments in Religion are not only cogent, but have clear and profound practical applications to the way religion is actually practiced in the world today * Includes a glossary aimed at justifying new translations of key technical terms in Religion, many of which have previously neglected religious and theological implications