The revised edition of the Cambridge translation of one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought.
As such, they are laws of freedom. This volume contains Mary Gregor's acclaimed translation of the text into English, revised by Jens Timmermann, and an accessible, updated introduction by Christine Korsgaard.
Immanuel Kant Robert Stern. Guyer, Paul, Kant. London: Routledge, 2006. Guyer, Paul (ed.) ... The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy. ... Introductory works on Kant's Groundwork Acton, H. B., Kant's Moral Philosophy.
The essays in this volume, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discuss Kant's philosophical development and his rejection of earlier moral theories, the role of happiness and inclination in the Groundwork, Kant's moral ...
The best known version of the objection in AngloAmerican philosophy is by Sidgwick (2005, 181–87), who, ignoring the Wille–Willkür distinction, attributed two incompatible conceptions of freedom to Kant: one in which freedom is equated ...
In this book, Immanuel Kant formulates and justifies a supreme principle of morality that issues universal and unconditional moral commands. These commands receive their normative force from the fact that rational agents autonomously ...
"The fundamental principles that form Kant's metaphysics of morals"--Cover.
It is here that Kant sets out his famous and controversial 'categorical imperative', which forms the basis of his moral theory. This book is an essential guide to the groundwork and the many important and profound claims that Kant raises.
Dieter Schönecker and Allen Wood make clear the ways this work forms the basis of our modern moral outlook and how moral law relates to freedom and free will within Kant’s overall philosophy.
The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785.
Featuring the renowned translation and commentary of Oxford's H. J. Paton, this volume has long been considered the definitive English edition of Kant's classic text.