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Conolly MEMOIRSOFMODERNPHILOSOPHERS 1 A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 2 Review Copy A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 3 Review Copy GROUNDWORK FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS Immanuel Kant translated by Thomas K.Abbott with revisions by Lara Denis edited by Lara Denis broadview editions A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 4 Review Copy ©2005 Lara Denis All rights reserved.The use of any part of this publication reproduced,transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,or stored in a retrieval system,without prior written consent of the publisher — or in the case of photocopy- ing,a licence from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency),One Yonge Street,Suite 1900,Toronto,Ontario M5E 1E5 — is an infringement of the copyright law. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Kant,Immanuel,1724–1804. Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals / by Immanuel Kant;translated by Thomas K.Abbott;with revisions by Lara Denis;edited by Lara Denis. (Broadview editions) Translation of:Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55111-539-5 1.Ethics—Early works to 1800. I.Abbott,Thomas Kingsmill,1829-1913 II. Denis, Lara,1969- III.Title. IV.Series. B2766.E6D45 2005 170 C2005-900068-6 Broadview Editions The Broadview Editions series represents the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable lesser-known works. Advisory editor for this volume:Kathryn Prince Broadview Press Ltd.is an independent,international publishing house,incorporated in 1985.Broadview believes in shared ownership,both with its employees and with the general public;since the year 2000 Broadview shares have traded publicly on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol BDP. 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PRINTED IN CANADA A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 5 Review Copy For Emmanuel Tseklenis Denis and Lorraine Williams Denis GROUNDWORK 5 A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 6 Review Copy 6 INTRODUCTION A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 7 Review Copy Contents Acknowledgements • 9 Introduction • 11 Immanuel Kant:A Brief Chronology • 43 A Note on the Text • 45 Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals • 47 Preface • 49 First Section:Transition from the Common Rational Moral Cognition to the Philosophical Moral Cognition • 55 Second Section:Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysics of Morals • 67 Third Section:Transition from the Metaphysics of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason • 103 Appendix A:Immanuel Kant,“An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”(1784) • 119 Appendix B:From Immanuel Kant,Critique of Practical Reason(1788) • 127 Appendix C:From Immanuel Kant,“On the Common Saying: ‘This May Be True in Theory,but It Does Not Apply in Practice’”(1793) • 141 Appendix D:From Immanuel Kant,Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone(1793,1794) • 149 Appendix E:From Immanuel Kant,Metaphysics of Morals (1797) • 153 Appendix F:From a Letter from Johann Gottlieb Fichte to Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1795) • 175 Appendix G:From Friedrich von Schiller and Wolfgang von Goethe,Xenian(1796) • 177 Appendix H:From Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,Lectures on the History of Philosophy(1831) • 179 Appendix I:From Henry Sidgwick,The Methods of Ethics (1907) • 181 Suggested Reading • 189 Index • 195 GROUNDWORK 7 A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 8 Review Copy 8 CONTENTS A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 9 Review Copy Acknowledgements I would like to thank Don LePan for encouraging me to submit a proposal for Kant’s Groundwork to Broadview, Julia Gaunce for assisting me during the proposal process,and the anonymous ref- erees for helping me refine my proposal.Thanks to Bill Bristow for helping me decide what should be included in the appendices, to Rebecca Yurman for proofreading a partial draft of the manu- script, and to Frederick Raucher for commenting on the entire manuscript.Thanks also to Barbara M.Conolly,Leonard Conol- ly,Kathryn Prince,Tania Therien,and everyone else at Broadview who helped turn the manuscript into this book.Finally,thanks to my husband,Roger Wertheimer,for commenting on a draft of the introduction,and (more importantly) for being a constant source of love and support,as well as a frequent source of perplexity and amusement. GROUNDWORKFORTHEMETAPHYSICSOFMORALS 9 A-FRONT.QXD 3/3/2005 3:01 PM Page 10 Review Copy 10 INTRODUCTION