Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Harvard University's Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy is Christine M. Korsgaard. She is the author of Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (2010), The Constitution of Agency (2009), The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge, 1996), and Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge, 1996). (Cambridge, 1996).
Jens Timmermann is a Reader in Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University. He is the author of Kant's Metaphysical Groundwork: A Commentary (Cambridge, 2007) and Sittengesetz und Freiheit (2003). He co-edited Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2010) and Kant's Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2009).
Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, published in 1785, is regarded as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy, alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. It is also among the best books on ethics. Its goal, in Kant's words, is to identify and validate the supreme moral principle, the categorical imperative. He contends that humans are ends in themselves, never to be used as a means by anyone, and that universal and unconditional obligations must be interpreted as an expression of the human capacity for autonomy and self-governance. As such, they are freedom laws. This edition includes Mary Gregor's acclaimed translation, sympathetically revised by Jens Timmermann, and Christine Korsgaard's accessible, updated introduction.
The Cambridge translation of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork, one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought, has been revised. It contains a revised text as well as updated introductory material. Undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy history, ethics, and Kant studies.
Author: Christine M. Korsgaard and Jens Timmermann
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