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

Palmquist’s <i>Commentary</i> 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.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Offers definitive, sentence-level commentary on Kant’s <i>Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason</i></li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Provides both a detailed overview and original interpretation of Kant’s work on the philosophy of religion</li> <li>Demonstrates that Kant’s arguments in <i>Religion</i> are not only cogent, but have clear and profound practical applications to the way religion is actually practiced in the world today</li> <li>Includes a glossary aimed at justifying new translations of key technical terms in <i>Religion</i>, many of which have previously neglected religious and theological implications</li> </ul>