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This is the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's Essay on a New Logic or Theory of Thinking, originally published in Berlin in 1794. Maimon came from an impoverished yet culturally rich Lithuanian Jewish background to write brilliantly speculative philosophy in Germany in the immediate wake of Immanuel Kant's revolutionary Critique of Pure Reason. His passionate search for the truth quickly led him to try to complete Kant's conceptual system in ways that inspired Fichte's philosophy of the transcendental self and anticipated Schelling's and Hegel's philosophies of the world-soul. However, Maimon grew beyond these initial ideas to develop a sophisticated philosophy of reflection. He argued that philosophical knowledge must arise from reflection on the principles of valid cognition. In the New Logic, he conducts this reflection and develops from it systematic accounts of logic, cognition, scientific methodology, and metaphysics. He presents it as a unified improvement of Kant's Critique. Maimon also based his mature philosophies of ethics, natural rights, aesthetics, and religion on this work.
Timothy Franz translates the New Logic along with the Letters of Philalethes to Aenesidemus, in which Maimon imagined conversations with his contemporaries, two hostile reviews which Maimon vigorously annotated, and relevant letters to Kant, Reinhold, and Fichte. Franz prefaces the text with a new history of Maimon's intellectual development, an introduction that relates the New Logic to contemporary Kant scholarship, and a detailed philosophical commentary that attempts to reconcile Maimon's idiosyncratically disjointed writing style with his underlying systematic vision, making the New Logic available for further study.
Contents
Translator's Preface
Translator's Introduction
Philosophical Commentary
Selected Bibliography
Epigraph
Dedication to the Lord Reviewers
Preface
Chapter One: Of Logic in General
Chapter Two: Of Thinking in General
Chapter Three: Of Concepts
Chapter Four: Of Judgments
Chapter Five: Of Inferences
Chapter Six: Of Mediate Inferences
Chapter Seven: Of Compound Inferences
Chapter Eight: [Of Cognition]
Chapter Nine: Critique of the Cognitive Capacity
Chapter Ten: [Derivation of the Categories]
Chapter Eleven: [The Transcendental Deduction]
Chapter Twelve: [Pure Reason and Illusion]
Chapter Thirteen: The Transcendental Dialectic
Notes and Clarifications
Letters of Philalethes to Aenesidemus
First Letter
Second Letter
Third Letter
Fourth Letter
Fifth Letter
Sixth Letter
Seventh Letter
Appendix 1. Maimon's Letter to Kant of December 2nd, 1793.
Appendix 2. Illuminated Review of Maimon's Quarrels in the Realm of Philosophy
Appendix 3. Illuminated Review of Maimon's On the Progress of Philosophy
Appendix 4. Maimon's Letter to Reinhold of May 24th, 1794.
Appendix 5. Maimon's Letter to Fichte of Aug. 16th, 1794.
Appendix 6. Maimon's Letter to Fichte of Oct. 16th, 1794.
Glossary
Index
