Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editors' preface
- Acknowledgments
- Translators' introduction
- Guide to abbreviations and the translators' notes
- I Metaphysik Herder, 1762–1764 (selections) (Ak. 28: 39–53)
- II Metaphysik L1, mid-1770s (complete except for the Natural Theology and Heinze extracts) (Ak. 28: 195–301)
- III Metaphysik Mrongovius, 1782–1783 (complete) (Ak. 29: 747–940)
- IV Metaphysik Volckmann, 1784–1785 (selections) (Ak. 28: 440–450)
- V Metaphysik L2, 1790–1791? (complete except for the Natural Theology) (Ak. 28: 531–594)
- VI Metaphysik Dohna, 1792–1793 (selections) (Ak. 28: 656–690)
- VII Metaphysik K2, early 1790s (selections) (Ak. 28: 753–775)
- VIII Metaphysik Vigilantius (K3), 1794–1795 (complete) (Ak. 29: 943–1040)
- English-German glossary
- German-English glossary
- Latin-German equivalents occurring in the text
- Concordance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics and Kant's Metaphysics lectures
- Explanatory notes (with bibliography of Kant's works cited)
- Name Index
- Subject index
I - Metaphysik Herder, 1762–1764 (selections) (Ak. 28: 39–53)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editors' preface
- Acknowledgments
- Translators' introduction
- Guide to abbreviations and the translators' notes
- I Metaphysik Herder, 1762–1764 (selections) (Ak. 28: 39–53)
- II Metaphysik L1, mid-1770s (complete except for the Natural Theology and Heinze extracts) (Ak. 28: 195–301)
- III Metaphysik Mrongovius, 1782–1783 (complete) (Ak. 29: 747–940)
- IV Metaphysik Volckmann, 1784–1785 (selections) (Ak. 28: 440–450)
- V Metaphysik L2, 1790–1791? (complete except for the Natural Theology) (Ak. 28: 531–594)
- VI Metaphysik Dohna, 1792–1793 (selections) (Ak. 28: 656–690)
- VII Metaphysik K2, early 1790s (selections) (Ak. 28: 753–775)
- VIII Metaphysik Vigilantius (K3), 1794–1795 (complete) (Ak. 29: 943–1040)
- English-German glossary
- German-English glossary
- Latin-German equivalents occurring in the text
- Concordance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics and Kant's Metaphysics lectures
- Explanatory notes (with bibliography of Kant's works cited)
- Name Index
- Subject index
Summary
[Cosmology]
PART <PARS> II
§354. It is not necessary that the finitude of the world, which is yet to be proven, is brought into the definition.
The world is a real whole <totum reale>: all things in it stand in real connection <in nexu reali>.
The world is a whole which is not part of another <totum quod non est pars alterius>: otherwise this would be only a piece of the world.
The world is therefore a (real) whole of actual things, which is not part of another <mundus ergo est totum (reale) actualium, quod non est pars alteriu<.
357. All things are in real connection <in realnexu>: they are connected in certain determinations, be they as they may.
358. (In this world) the world is present, of which I am a part. There is a reciprocal connection, either mediately or immediately <(in hoc mundo) mundus praesens est, cujus sum pars ego. Est nexus mutuus vel mediate vel immediate>.
361. (Cf. §354, as a proposition to be proven, should not be brought into the definition) As parts, all parts of the whole are in real connection <in realnexu> with one another as component parts <compartibus>: because they are grounds of the whole, and the whole cannot subsist without them. A part thus depends on some determinations of the others: consequently no part in the whole is independent – the whole [is] not independent – [but] contingent.
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- Lectures on Metaphysics , pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997