The Critique of Practical Reason

by Immanuel Kant

Publisher:

Longman

, 1898

Overview

The second of the three critiques, The Critique of Practical Reason, takes up the subject of moral philosophy. Kant argues that the fundamental rule of morality is that it holds universally. He criticizes previous ethicists for saying that the moral person is working toward the greatest good rather than that the greatest good is the thing the moral person is aiming for. Morality determines the greatest good, not the other way around. Kant concludes the work with a plan for moral education.

Key Features

• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• Critical Examination of Practical Reason
• The Analytic of Pure Practical Reason
• Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason
• Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals: And Preface to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
• First Part of the Philosophical Theory of Religion

Contents

• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• Critical Examination of Practical Reason
• The Analytic of Pure Practical Reason
• Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason
• Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals: And Preface to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
• First Part of the Philosophical Theory of Religion

Product Details

• Title: Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics
• Author: Immanuel Kant
• Edition: Fifth Edition, Revised
• Publisher: Longman
• Print Publication Date: 1898
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 368
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Ethics
• Resource ID: LLS:CRTQPRCTLRSNKANT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:31:09Z

About Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg, researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology during and at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment. At the time, there were major successes and advances in physical science using reason and logic. But this stood in sharp contrast to the scepticism and lack of agreement or progress in empiricist philosophy.