Principles of Moral Metaphysics

Author: Immanuel Kant
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is a classic by Kant on ethics and morality. Although it is not very long, it focuses on the idea that virtue is the moral force of human will and possesses autonomy, making it a representative work of Kant's moral philosophy and having had an extremely profound influence on Western ethical thought. This book was translated from the German original by Professor Miao Litian and is now selected as one of the "Pocket Classics." The entire book includes a long preface by the translator, which can serve as a guide to Kant's original work. Additionally, it features "Argument Analysis" by the renowned British Kant scholar H.J. Paton as an appendix, which explains and analyzes the text paragraph by paragraph, significantly reducing the difficulty of reading Kant's original works. The method adopted in this book is the convenient method, which analytically transitions from common cognition to the specification of the highest principle of this cognition; and then reversely synthetically transitions from the verification and source of this principle back to the common cognition where it is applied. Therefore, this book can be divided into the following chapters: Chapter 1 transitions from common moral rational knowledge to philosophical moral rational knowledge; Chapter 2 transitions from popular ethics to moral metaphysics; Chapter 3 transitions from moral metaphysics to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.