I. THE ‘CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON.’
Note of the Editor
The following lectures on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason were not all
composed at the same time. A, B, F, G are extracts from a continuous
course which was delivered more than once when Green was a tutor at
Balliol College. They were written after the publication of the Introductions to Hume
(1874), but not long after, as they are referred to in lectures
on logic delivered in 1874-1875. C, D, E, H, I seem to have been later
additions or supplements to the previous course, to which they sometimes
refer as ‘old.’ They were all apparently used, in whole or in part, for
lectures delivered in Balliol College in 1875-1876, References show that
at the time of their composition the articles on H. Spencer were already
written, though the first of these was not published until December 1877.
The lectures are here arranged in the order of the parts of the Critique
to which they chiefly relate. The nature of the materials from which they
are taken made some repetitions unavoidable; and the abruptness of the
transitions, and the occasional variation of view which they exhibit, are due
to the same cause.
The references are to the pages in Hartenstein’s edition of Kant’s works,
vol. iv. The translations referred to are those of J. M. D. Meiklejohn and
(in C) J. P. Mahafly.
