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| Editor’s Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . | III |
| Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . | IX |
| I. Kant’s Religious Development . . . . . | IX |
| a) Youth p. IX. — b) Pre-critical Period The period before Kant published his "Critique of Pure Reason" in 1781. p. XII. — c) Critical Period p. XII. — d) Results. Other testimonies regarding Kant’s position on religion p. XXV. | |
| II. On the History of the Work’s Origin . . . | XXX |
| III. Fundamental Tendency and Content of the Work . . . . | XL |
| IV. Effects and Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | LI |
| a) Reception among contemporaries: 1. Opponents p. LI. 2. Followers p. LV. — b) Kant and Schiller Friedrich Schiller, the famous German poet and philosopher who engaged deeply with Kantian ethics. p. LIX. — c) Further Aftereffects: 1. Theological Rationalism p. LXVIII. 2. Judgments of modern theologians p. LXXI. | |
| V. Textual Philology Textual Philology: The study of manuscripts and printed versions to determine the most accurate original text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . | LXXV |
| a) Previous editions p. LXXV. b) On the history of the text p. LXXVI. c) Textual changes by the editor p. LXXVIII. | |
| VI. Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | LXXIX |
| Preface to the First Edition (from 1793) . . . . . . | 1 |
| Preface to the Second Edition (1794) . . . . . . | 11 |
| First Part. Of the Indwelling of the Evil Principle alongside the Good, i.e., of the Radical Evil in Human Nature . . . . . . . | 15 |
| I. Of the Original Predisposition to Good in Human Nature . . . . . . . . . . | 25 |
| II. Of the Propensity to Evil in Human Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 28 |
| III. Man is by Nature Evil . . . . . . . | 32 |