Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals Immanuel Kant Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is to add the principle on which it is based, so that we may both satisfy ourselves of its completeness, and also be able to determine correctly the necessary subdivisions. All rational knowledge is either material or formal: the former considers some object, the latter is concerned only with the f...
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- FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
- 1785
- Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
- PREFACE
- FIRST SECTION—TRANSITION FROM THE COMMON RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF MORALITY TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL
- SECOND SECTION—TRANSITION FROM POPULAR MORAL PHILOSOPHY TO THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
- The Autonomy of the Will as the Supreme Principle of Morality
- Heteronomy of the Will as the Source of all spurious Principles of Morality
- Classification of all Principles of Morality which can be founded on the Conception of Heteronomy
- THIRD SECTION—TRANSITION FROM THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS TO THE CRITIQUE OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON
- The Concept of Freedom is the Key that explains the Autonomy of the Will
- Freedom must be presupposed as a Property of the Will of all Rational Beings
- Of the Interest attaching to the Ideas of Morality
- How is a Categorical Imperative Possible?
- Of the Extreme Limits of all Practical Philosophy.
- CONCLUDING REMARK
- THE END
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