Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
by Immanuel Kant
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Contents
- 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
- 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