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Contemporary Sammelband containing: (1) First edition of the 'Critique of Practical Reason' - the primary source for the categorical imperative and Kant's other ethical doctrines. Uniform browning, heavier in some sections, occasional spots, old pencil markings on about 25 pages. Adickes 67; Warda 112. (2) First edition of Kant's answer to the attacks of J.A. Eberhard, who had maintained that whatever was contained in Kant's critical philosophy had already been better expressed by Leibniz and Wolff. Foxed throughout, mainly in the margins. Adickes 70; Warda 132. (3) Third edition of Kant's 'Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals', first published in 1785. Uniform light browning and foxing, heavier in places, occasional old pencil annotations and reading marks. Adickes 58; Warda 93. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: three works in one volume, 8vo, 292, 126, [xvi], 128 pp., contemporary speckled boards with paper spine label, rubbed, no library stamps, individual condition noted above, generally good.

Critik der practischen Vernunft, or 'Critique of Practical Reason,' is one of Immanuel Kant's major works in moral philosophy. Published in 1788, this book continues Kant's critical philosophy providing further elaboration on the ideas initially exposed in his Critique of Pure Reason.