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The metaphysical elements of ethics / Immanuel Kant, translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Published
[Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
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1 online resource (1 electronic document (70 pages))
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Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill, 1829-1913
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Contents
Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics; I -- Exposition of the Conception of Ethics; II -- Exposition of the Notion of an End Which is Also a Duty; III -- Of the Reason for Conceiving an End Which is Also a Duty; IV -- What Are the Ends Which Are Also Duties?; V -- Explanation of These Two Notions; VI -- Ethics Does Not Supply Laws for Actions (Which is Done by Jurisprudence), but Only for the Maxims of Action; VII -- Ethical Duties Are of Indeterminate, Juridical Duties of Strict, Obligation; VIII -- Exposition of the Duties of Virtue as Intermediate Duties., IX -- What is a Duty of Virtue?X -- The Supreme Principle of Jurisprudence was Analytical; That of Ethics is Synthetical; XI -- According to the Preceding Principles, the Scheme of Duties of Virtue May Be Thus Exhibited; XII -- Preliminary Notions of the Susceptibility of the Mind for Notions of Duty Generally; XIII -- General Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals in the Treatment of Pure Ethics; XIV -- Of Virtue in General; XV -- Of the Principle on Which Ethics is Separated From Jurisprudence; XVI -- Virtue Requires, First of All, Command Over Oneself., and XVII -- Virtue Necessarily Presupposes Apathy (Considered as Strength)Endnotes.
Summary
If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for this philosophy a system of pure rational concepts, independent of any condition of intuition, in other words, a metaphysic. It may be asked whether metaphysical elements are required also for every practical philosophy, which is the doctrine of duties, and therefore also for Ethics, in order to be able to present it as a true science (systematically), not merely as an aggregate of separate doctrines (fragmentarily). As regards pure jurisprudence, no one will qu.
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9781775414483
1775414485
9781775567066
1775567060
9781775414766
1775414760
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Archived by the National Library of New Zealand.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 8, 2010).
"From a 1780 edition"--Page 3.
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