Immanuel Kant

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Herausgeber: Wood, Allen W.

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Produktbeschreibung

Now in a new, affordable edition with updated notes, a superbly readable translation of Kant's classic work This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant's conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This new edition of Kant's work provides a fresh translation that is uniquely faithful to the German original and more fully annotated than any previous translation. The editor and translator, Allen Wood, has written a new introduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 141mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780300227437
• ISBN-10: 0300227434
• Artikelnr.: 49137954

Autorenporträt

Allen W. Wood is Ruth Norman Halls Professor at Indiana University and Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Note on the translation and the text
* Select bibliography
* A chronology of Immanuel Kant
* Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
* 1: Transition from common to philosophical rational knowledge of
morality
* 2: Transition from popular moral philosophy to the metaphysics of
morals
* 3: Transition from the metaphysics of morals to the critique of pure
practical reason
* Explanatory notes
* Glossary
* Index