Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Prologue, 1. What I am concerned with is self-knowledge, meaning knowledge both of our own minds and of the human mind in general. The meaning of mind., 2. Why is it that we have made so little progress in the discovery of the mind? Goethe and Kant., 3. Three aims, I. Goethe and the Discovery of the Mind, II. Influences: Herder, Lessing, Schiller, Fichte, Schopenhauer, III. Kant: The Structure of the Mind, IV. Kant: Autonomy, Style, and Certainty, V. Hegel's Three Conceptions of Phenomenology, Bibliography, Acknowledgments

About the Author

Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was professor of philosophy at Princeton University from 1947 until his death. He had visiting appointments at Columbia, Cornell, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington among others. His books include The Future of the Humanities, Religion from Tolstoy to Camus, and the three volume series entitled Discovering the Mind.