Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy

This volume brings to English readers the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kant's moral and legal philosophy. Examining Kant's relation to predecessors such as Hutcheson, Wolff, and Baumgarten, it clarifies the central issues in each of Kant's major works in practical philosophy, including The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals. It also examines the relation of Kant's philosophy to politics. Collectively, the essays in this volume provide English readers with a direct view of how leading German philosophers are now regarding Kant's revolutionary practical philosophy, one of the outstanding achievements of German thought.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Works	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Early Conceptions
Hutcheson and Kant	p. 29
The Theory of Obligation in Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Early Kant	p. 58
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
What Is the Purpose of a Metaphysics of Morals? Some Observations on the Preface to the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals	p. 77
The Transition from Common Rational Moral Knowledge to Philosophical Rational Moral Knowledge in the Groundwork	p. 93
Reason Practical in Its Own Right	p. 123
Kant's Justification of the Role of Maxims in Ethics	p. 134
Critique of Practical Reason
The Form of the Maxim as the Determining Ground of the Will (The Critique of Practical Reason: 4-6, 27-30)	p. 159
'On the Concept of an Object of Pure Practical Reason' (Chapter 2 of the Analytic of Practical Reason)	p. 179
The Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason in the Second Critique (CPrR:107-121)	p. 198
The Postulates of Pure Practical Reason (CPrR:122-148)	p. 213
Legal and Political Philosophy
On How to Acquire Something External, and Especially on the Right to Things (A Commentary on the Metaphysics of Morals 10-17)	p. 231
'The Civil Constitution in Every State Shall Be a Republican One'	p. 246
Commentary on Kant's Treatment of Constitutional Right (Metaphysics of Morals II: General Remark A; 51-52, Conclusion, Appendix)	p. 265
Refusing Sovereign Power - The Relation between Philosophy and Politics in the Modern Age	p. 284
Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 317
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