A defining work of moral philosophy, Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been influential to an extent far beyond what its modest length (roughly 75 pages) might suggest. It is also a famously difficult work, concerned with propounding universal principles rather than answering practical questions. As even professional philosophers will admit, first-time readers...(展开全部)

The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785. Kant champions the insights of 'common human understanding' against what he sees as the dangerous perversions of ethical theory. Morality is revealed to be a matter of human autonomy: Kant locates the source of t...(展开全部)

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 principle of morality, the categorical imperative. Kant argues that every human being is an end in hi...(展开全部)

Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and deepens Kant's earlier accounts of morality, freedom and moral psychology. In this 2010 volume of newly-commissioned essays, a di...(展开全部)

The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy in which he deals with the basic principles of rights and of virtues. It comprises two parts: the "Doctrine of Right," which deals with the rights that people have or can acquire, and the "Doctrine of Virtue," which deals with the virtues they ought to acquire. Mary Gregor's translation, revised for pub...(展开全部)

Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is widely regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of moral philosophy. Indeed, any student of ethics will soon encounter a translation of the book, although trying to read it is likely to cause bewilderment. What, one may ask, is Kant trying to say? This book provides the answers. Here, se...(展开全部)

An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson’s influential “Freedom and Resentment” P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment” is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting responses across multiple disciplines, from psychology to sociology. In Freedom, Resent...(展开全部)

Of all the major philosophical works, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding, yet one of the most difficult. Norman Kemp Smith's Commentary elucidates not only textural questions and minor issues, but also the central problems which arise, he contends, from the conflicting tendencies of Kant's own thinking. Kemp Smith's Commentary continues to be in demand ...(展开全部)

伊曼努尔•康德（Immanuel Kant，1724-1804），启蒙运动时期最重要的思想家之一，德国古典哲学创始人，同时也是一位杰出的天文学家。 其前期的自然科学研究成果主要是《一般自然史与天体理论》（1755），其中提出了著名的关于太阳系起源的星云假说。后期的哲学研究成果主要是《纯粹理性批判》（1781）、《实践理性批判》（1788）和《判断力批判》（1790）。“三大批判”构成了一个完整而严密的先验唯心论体系，给哲学界带来了一场天翻地覆的“哥白尼革命”（又称“开普勒改革”）。 李秋零，河南唐河人，1957年生，哲学博士。现任中国人民大学佛教与宗教学理论研究所专职研究员，哲学院教授、博士生导师。兼任香港汉语基督教文化研究所特邀研究员等。 主要研究领域为基督教哲学、德国古典哲学。著有《上帝•宇宙•人》、《德国哲人视野中的历史》、《神光沐浴下的文化再...(展开全部)