Ebook: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

Preface -- First section: transition from common rational moral cognition to philosophical moral cognition -- Second section: transition from popular moral philosophy to the metaphysics of morals -- Third section: transition from the metaphysics of morals to the critique of pure practical reason.;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. --