Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

A Reader's Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8454-3
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: Reader's Guides

Kant is probably the philosopher who best typifies the thought and ideals of the Enlightenment. He was influenced by the modern physics of Newton the rationalist perfectionism of Leibniz and Wolff, the critical empiricism of Locke and Hume, and Rousseau's celebration of liberty and individualism; his work can be seen partly as an attempt to combine and synthesize these various ideas. He first expounded his moral vision in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), the seminal work of modern moral philosophy in which he introduced his infamous 'categorical imperative'. Paul Guyer's Reader's Guide will help readers find their way in this brilliant but dense and sometimes baffling work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guyer, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Guyer is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has written and edited over 10 books on Kant, including the Cambridge Companion and a book of critical essays on the Groundwork, as well as translating Kant's primary texts.