KANT'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY FOR ENGLISH READERS. BY JOHN P. MAHAFFY, A. M., FELLOW AND TUTOR, PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. 17.475 K16.9 ·M214ka 1872 v.l PREFACE. THE present work is intended to replace my translation of Kuno Fischer's Commentary on Kant's Philosophy, which is now nearly out of print. For though that Commentary, modified and corrected by many notes, was generally accepted in England as a fair exposition of the Critick, I am now persuaded that many more corrections were necessary, and that a Second Edition must contain throughout two expositions, one in the text, and another in the notes. It seemed therefore better to yield to the advice of many competent friends, and produce an independent work, profiting where I could by the German commentaries, but presenting to the reader a consistent and uniform text. I have adhered much more faithfully than Kuno Fischer, or indeed any other Commentator I have met, to Kant's text, |