This is to inform you that www.earlymoderntexts.com. has acquired four
texts since I last reported (in February 2005):
1. Mill’s beautiful On Liberty. Hardly ‘early modern’; but Mill’s
writing, excellent as it is, presents obstacles to today’s readers, so
that it seemed worthwhile to include it in my project.
2. Leibniz’s ‘Making the Case for God’; this is his Causa Dei Asserta, a
tough little Latin appendix to the Theodicy, stating compactly the main
doctrines of the larger work.
3. Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. In some translations
of this work’s title, ‘Foundation(s)’ is used, but it is wrong.
Grundlegung can refer to (i) a foundation or to (ii) the laying of it.
Near the end of the Preface, Kant explicitly describes ‘the present
Grundlegung’ as a certain task - an activity, not an object; and when he
wants to refer to the object he uses Grundlage, as when he speaks of
this work as diese Vorarbeitung der Grundlage, ‘this preparatory work on
the foundation’. I am indebted to Petra von Morstein for putting me onto
this point. -This text is undergoing severe scrutiny right now, but I
have decided not to wait. If revisions are needed, they will be done.
4. Descartes’s Discourse on the Method.
Jonathan Bennett
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