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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, and the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals) is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and the first of his trilogy of major works on ethics alongside the Critique of ...
Die Metaphysik der Sitten, full German text of the Metaphysics of Morals (from Korpora). Book Review of Mary Gregor's 1991 translation of the Metaphysics of Morals , by Steven Palmquist. Kant and the Moral Necessity of Civil Society , full text of political theory work by Dr. Jacqueline Augustine.
These help form the basis for Kant's universalizing ethical theory for society. Kant introduced the concept in his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (4:439), considering a world in which all human beings are treated as ends (meaning treated as if they and their well-being are the goal), not as mere means to an end for other people.
Additionally, while the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is important for understanding Kant's ethics, one gets an incomplete understanding of his moral thought if one only reads the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason, or is not at least aware that his other ethical writings discuss other ...
The categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperativ) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.Introduced in Kant's 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, it is a way of evaluating motivations for action.
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Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: A Critical Guide, Co-editor with Andrews Reath, Cambridge University Press, 2010; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A German-English Edition, ed. and tr. Mary Gregor and Jens Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2011; Kant's 'Tugendlehre', Co-editor with Oliver Sensen and Andreas Trampota, De ...
His classical republican theory was extended in Doctrine of Right (1797), the first part of Metaphysics of Morals. [4] At the end of the 20th century Kant's political philosophy had been enjoying a remarkable renaissance in English-speaking countries with more major studies in a few years than had appeared in the preceding many decades. [5]