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Download or read book Review of Schulz's "Attempt at a Guide to Moral Teaching for All People" written by Immanuel Kant and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 2024 translation of Immanuel Kant's "Review of Schulz's "Attempt at a Guide to Moral Teaching for All People" from the original German manuscript first published in 1783. This new edition contains an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Kant's life and works, and a helpful index of Kant's key concepts and intellectual rivals. This translation is designed for readability, rendering Kant's enigmatic German into the simplest equivalent possible, and removing the academic footnotes to make this critically important historical text as accessible as possible to the modern reader. The introduction outlines Schulz's intention to develop a new moral system based on psychological principles, discussing themes such as human nature, freedom, and life and death. Kant critiques interpretation of vitality and cognition, challenging his views on the soul and the nature of truth and error, reason and judgment. An examination of Schulz's view of will and action, analyzing his position on self-love, free will, and the nature of virtue and vice, as well as his arguments against punitive justice. The final part of the review critiques Schulz's fatalism and its implications for morality, discussing the practical implications of freedom and the role of reason in moral action and judgment