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

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

What is the foundation of morality? How can we determine what is right and wrong? "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" by Immanuel Kant is a seminal work in Western philosophy, where Kant seeks to answer these profound questions. In this text, Kant establishes the core principles... Read Full Overview

Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the central works of modern moral philosophy and the classic statement of Kantian ethics. In this concise and demanding text, Immanuel Kant seeks to identify the supreme principle of morality: not custom,... Read Full Overview

La Fundamentaci n de la metaf sica de las costumbres tambi n conocido como los Fundamentos de la metaf sicas de la moral, es el primero de los trabajos maduros de Immanuel Kant en la filosof a de la moral y sigue siendo uno de los m s influyentes en su campo. Publicado en 1785,... 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

What is morally permissible, and what is morally obligatory? These questions form the core of a vast amount of philosophical reasoning. In his Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant developed a basis for the answers. In this landmark work, the German... Read Full Overview

The nature and theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits of great scholars. In The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785) Immanuel Kant, one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the eighteenth... 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 influential work on moral philosophy is published here complete, in the authoritative translation by T. K. Abbott. Within the two parts which constitute the overall work, Kant initiates a wide ranging discussion beginning with a retrospective on Ancient Greek... Read Full Overview

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

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

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns, written by legendary author Immanuel Kant, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic texts of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new... Read Full Overview