Excerpt from The Metaphysics of Ethics
I. Critik der reinen Vernunft; that is, Inquiry into the Reach and Extent of the A Priori Operations of the Human Understanding: first published at Riga in 1781.
II. In 1783 Kant published a defence of the Critik, entitled Metaphysical Prolegomena. At the same time the first part of the Ethics appeared, under the title of Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; i.e., Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics. Both works have been translated into English: the first by Mr. Richardson, in 1819; the second by an anonymous writer, who published two miscellaneous volumes in 1799, under the title of Kant's Essays. The work of Mr. Richardson is to be had at any bookseller's. The Essays are apparently rendered by a foreigner, and printed abroad, although graced with London title-page. The only copy of this Miscellany I have been ever able to procure, is the copy in the Advocates' Library. No translation of any other part of Kant's Philosophy has hitherto been attempted in this country.
III. In 1786, The Metaphysic of Physics. This expounds the metaphysical foundations of natural philosophy.
IV. In 1788, Critik der Praktischen Vernunft; that is, Inquiry into the a priori Functions and Operations of the Will, or, as we might say, a Dissertation on the Active and Moral Powers of Man. This is the superstructure reared upon the Groundwork. It treats of the Causality and Spring of the Will, and of the Summum Bonum. Three chapters in this work will be found in the following sheets, under the title of "Inquiry into the a priori Operations of the Will."
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