Routledge Philosophers in Focus Series: Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals in Focus (Paperback)

from skholiast

To read Kant is to become acquainted with what it means to take thought seriously. Today it is not uncommon to set up a straw Kant in Phil 101 classes, using either this text or the "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics," to depict Kant as an incorrigible rationalist reductionist. Still, if you ...

from michaelbartley

Kant is very hard to read, at least for me, however when reading him you discover a first rate mind, that looks very deeply into the human condition. In this book Kant looks for ground to build a system of moral and ethics on. While it has flaws, for its time his conclusions are breath taking.

from KXF

Inasmuch as we can praise Kant's brilliance and analytical rigour, the Metaphysics of Morals falls patently flat if only because he is overextending the gains he has made in the first Critique to apply to the domain of ethics. Any movement from "is" to "ought" (i.e., the shift from ontology to et...

from drbrand

So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, in every case at the same time as an end, never as a means only. A virtuosic display of intellect as is typical of Kant. He teeters on the verge of mysticism sometimes in his adulation of reason and desire to strip i...

from drbrand

So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, in every case at the same time as an end, never as a means only. A virtuosic display of intellect as is typical of Kant. He teeters on the verge of mysticism sometimes in his adulation of reason and desire to strip i...