Chapter Reviews of the Pre-Critical Kant

Abstract

This paper deals with the reviews of Kant’s pre-critical philosophy before 1770, which involve minor works such as Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels, Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des Daseins Gottes and the Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen. These reviews involved authors who were protagonists of the philosophical debate of that time such as Johann Georg Hamman, Moses Mendelssohn, and Johann Gottfried Herder, and determined the way in which Kant developed his philosophical thought from an initial approach to natural science to more genuine metaphysical themes.