Stephen R. Palmquist 
Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason 

Palmquist’s Commentary provides the first definitive
clarification on Kant’s Philosophy of Religion in English; it
includes the full text of Pluhar’s translation, interspersed
with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an
original interpretation of Kant’s work.

* Offers definitive, sentence-level commentary on Kant’s
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason

* Presents a thoroughly revised version of Pluhar’s
translation of the full text of Kant’s Religion, including
detailed notes comparing the translation with the others still in
use today

* Identifies most of the several hundred changes Kant made to the
second (1794) edition and unearths evidence that many major changes
were responses to criticisms of the first edition

* Provides both a detailed overview and original interpretation
of Kant’s work on the philosophy of religion

* Demonstrates that Kant’s arguments in Religion are
not only cogent, but have clear and profound practical applications
to the way religion is actually practiced in the world today

* Includes a glossary aimed at justifying new translations of key
technical terms in Religion, many of which have previously
neglected religious and theological implications

About the author

Stephen R. Palmquist is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Hong Kong Baptist University. He lectures on a wide variety of subjects in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Palmquist has written numerous scholarly articles on various aspects of Kant’s philosophy, and has published 10 books, the most recent of which is Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy (2010). In addition to Kant, his research interests include depth psychology, philosophy of love, philosophical anthropology, mysticism, logic of symbolism, theology of politics, and philosophy of religion.