Research Catalog

Title

Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals / translated with an introduction and notes by Christopher Bennett, Joe Saunders, and Robert Stern.

Author

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bennett, Christopher, 1972-
• Saunders, Joe
• Stern, Robert

Description

xlv, 89 pages; 19 cm.

Summary

"In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Immanuel Kant makes clear his two central intentions: first, to uncover the principle that underpins morality, and secondly to defend its applicability to human beings. The result is one of the most significant texts in the history of ethics, and a masterpiece of Enlightenment thinking. Kant argues that moral law tells us to act only in ways that others could also act, thereby treating them as ends in themselves and not merely as means. Kant contends that despite apparent threats to our freedom from science, and to ethics from our self-interest, we can nonetheless take ourselves to be free rational agents, who as such have a motivation to act on this moral law, and thus the ability to act as moral beings. One of the most studied works of moral philosophy, this new translation by Robert Stern, Joe Saunders, and Christopher Bennett illuminates this famous text for modern readers."--

Series Statement

Oxford world's classics

Uniform Title

• Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten. English
• Oxford world's classics.

Alternative Title

• Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten.
• Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals : a new translation

Subjects

• PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
• Early works
• Ethics > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxvii]-xl) and index.

Call Number

JFD 20-3029

ISBN

• 9780198786191
• 0198786190

OCLC

1089859429

Author

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804, author.

Title

Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals / translated with an introduction and notes by Christopher Bennett, Joe Saunders, and Robert Stern.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford world's classics

Oxford world's classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxvii]-xl) and index.

Added Author

Bennett, Christopher, 1972- translator, writer of introduction.

Saunders, Joe, translator, writer of introduction.

Stern, Robert, translator, writer of introduction.

Cover Title

Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals : a new translation

Research Call Number

JFD 20-3029