The translators' introduction provides a biography of Baumgarten, a discussion of the importance of the Initia, its relation to Wolff's and Meier's universal practical philosophy and its role in Kant's lectures. Meier and Wolff are also included, alongside a German-English-Latin glossary.

To facilitate further study, first-time translations of elucidatory passages from G. Translating these extensive elucidations into English, together with Kant's notes on the text, this translation offers a complete resource to Kant's reading of the Initia. In his personal copy, Kant penned hundreds of pages of notes and sketches that document his relation to this earlier tradition. Originally published in Latin in 1760, the Initia contains a systematic, but original version of the universal practical philosophy first articulated by Christian Wolff. This book presents the first English translation of Alexander Baumgarten's Initia Philosophiae Practicae Primae, the textbook Kant used in his lectures on moral philosophy. Translating these extensive elucidations into English.

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