Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829–1913) was an Irish scholar, philosopher, and clergyman known for his work in philosophy and translation. He is best recognized for translating Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" and "Critique of Judgment" into English, significantly contributing to Kantian scholarship in the English-speaking world. Abbott was also a professor of moral philosophy and logic at Trinity College Dublin, where he spent much of his academic career. His other notable work includes "The Elements of Logic," a widely used textbook in the 19th century.

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PREFACE. This work is called the Critique of Practical Reason, not of the pure practical reason, although its parallelism with the speculative critique would seem to require the latter term. The reason of this appears sufficiently from the treatise itself. Its business is to show that there is pure practical reason, and for this purpose it criticizes the entire practical faculty of reason. If it... more...

If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for this philosophy a system of pure rational concepts, independent of any condition of intuition, in other words, a metaphysic. It may be asked whether metaphysical elements are required also for every practical philosophy, which is the doctrine of duties, and therefore also... more...