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

Immanuel Kant's classic work on moral philosophy, also known as "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals," which remains one of the field's most influential books. Kant undertakes to the fundamental principles of morality and prove their application to humanity. Kant... Read Full Overview

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

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

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.

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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

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

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 introduction... Read Full Overview