Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Paul Guyer is the Florence R. C. Murray Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Kant and the Claims of Taste (Cambridge) and Kant and the Experience of Freedom (Cambridge), the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kant, and the co-editor and translator with Allen Wood of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge, forthcoming).

In gathering these essays into a single, affordable volume, the publishers have provided a valuable resource for both students and teachers of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It is a welcome addition to a valuable new series.

• Part 1 Historical BackgroundChapter 2 Natural Law/ Skepticism/ and Methods of EthicsPart 3 The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative (Groundwork I)Chapter 4 The Argument of Kant's GroundworkChapter 5 Kant's Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork IChapter 6 Kant's Good Will and Our Good NaturePart 7 The Categorical Imperative and Its Formulations (Groundwork II)Chapter 8 Consistency in ActionChapter 9 Mutual Aid and Respect for PersonsChapter 10 Humanity as End in ItselfChapter 11 The Categorical ImperativeChapter 12 The Possibility of the Categorical ImperativePart 13 The Categorical Imperative and Freesom of the Will (Groundwork III)Chapter 14 Kant's Argument for the Rationality of Moral ConductChapter 15 Morality and Freedom: Kant's Reciprocity ThesisChapter 16 The Deduction of the Moral Law: The Reasons for the Obscurity of the Final Section of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals