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Now in a new, affordable edition with updated notes, a superbly readable translation of Kant's classic work

The finest single-volume introduction to Kant's ethics available in English. --PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, on the H. J. Paton translation

Considered one of the most profound, influential, and important works of world philosophy, Groundwork of the Metaphysic... Read Full Overview

As my concern here is with moral philosophy, I limit the question suggested to this: Whether it is not of the utmost necessity to construct a pure thing which is only empirical and which belongs to anthropology? for that such a philosophy must be possible is evident from the... Read Full Overview

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme... Read Full Overview

T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of morality.'

Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamental principle 'morality' that governs human action.

Supported by a clear... Read Full Overview

Esta obra de Kant consta de un Pr logo y de tres cap tulos. En el pr logo comienza diciendo Kant que la filosof a o conocimiento racional puede ser de dos tipos: material (si considera alg n objeto, como por ejemplo la f sica que considera la naturaleza, y la tica que considera... Read Full Overview

In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues.

Published in 1785, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought. In this book, Immanuel Kant formulates and justifies a supreme principle of morality that issues universal and unconditional moral commands. These... Read Full Overview