Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals

Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant ; edited and translated by Allen W. Wood ; with essays by J.B. Schneewind [and others].

Immanuel Kants Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important texts in the history of ethics. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of rei...

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Main Author: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Other Authors: Wood, Allen W., Schneewind, J. B. (Jerome B.), 1930-2024
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Series:Rethinking the Western tradition.
Subjects:
Ethics > Early works to 1800.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Ethik
Early works
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten.
Table of Contents:
  • Text: Immanuel Kant : Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals (1785)
  • First section : Transition from common rational moral cognition to philosophical moral cognition
  • Second section : Transition from popular moral philosophy to the metaphysics of morals
  • Third section : Transition from the metaphysics of morals to the critique of pure practical reason.
  • Essays: Why study Kant's ethics? / J.B. Schneewind
  • Acting from duty / Marcia Baron
  • Kantianism for consequentialists / Shelly Kagan
  • What is Kantian ethics? / Allen W. Wood.

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