Kant’s Moral Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Kant’s most influential positions in moral philosophy are found in The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (hereafter, “Groundwork”) but he developed, enriched, and in some cases modified those views in later works such as The Critique of Practical Reason, The Metaphysics of Morals, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Immanuel Kant - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Its main topic is metaphysics because, for Kant, metaphysics is the domain of reason – it is “the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically” (Axx) – and the authority of reason was in question
Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy In turning to the specific disciplines of special metaphysics (those concerning the soul, the world, and God), Kant devotes a considerable amount of time discussing the human interests that nevertheless pull us into the thorny questions and controversies that characterize special metaphysics
Kants Moral Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Kant's most influential positions are found in The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (hereafter, “Groundwork”) but he developed, enriched, and in some cases modified those views in later works such as The Critique of Practical Reason, The Metaphysics of Morals, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View and Religion within the
Kant’s Philosophy of Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Kant’s Physical Monadology (1756) articulates a theory of matter that can reconcile the infinite divisibility of space, as maintained in geometry, with the simplicity of substances, which Kant believes is required in metaphysics As was the case with his earlier works, the essential feature of his reconciliation lies in the way in which his
Kant and Hume on Morality - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Kant's main works on ethics, narrowly considered, are the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and the Metaphysics of Morals (1797), which contains both “the Doctrine of Right” and “the Doctrine of Virtue ”
Kant on What We Owe to Ourselves - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy His main discussion is in the Metaphysics of Morals—in particular, the Doctrine of Virtue—but the topic comes up in his Lectures on Ethics, and he discusses examples in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals as well as the Critique of Practical Reason What does Kant think is owed to oneself?
Kant’s Social and Political Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of . . . In the Groundwork Kant distinguishes the ethics of autonomy, in which the will (Wille, or practical reason itself) is the basis of its own law, from the ethics of heteronomy, in which something independent of the will, such as happiness, is the basis of moral law (4:440–41)