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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

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

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

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

Immanuel Kant: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage

Vollst ndiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

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

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

En esta obra Kant busca desarrollar el sistema de toda la moralidad, pudi ndosele considerar como el edificio de la moralidad.Por eso mismo es la Fundamentaci n la obra moral de Kant en donde su pensamiento tico llega a mayor claridad de expresi n y en donde se encuentran las... 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.

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

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