Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on Ethics

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MEMOIR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS.

AUTHOR’S PREFACE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

FIRST SECTION.

TRANSITION FROM THE COMMON RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF MORALITY TO PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

SECOND SECTION.

TRANSITION FROM POPULAR MORAL PHILOSOPHY TO THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Autonomy of the Will as the Supreme Principle of Morality, . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Heteronomy of the Will as the source of all Spurious Principles of Morality, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . on the same page original: "ib." (ibidem), meaning in the same place.
Classification of all Principles of Morality which can be founded on the Concept original: "Conception" of Heteronomy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

THIRD SECTION.

TRANSITION FROM THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS TO THE CRITIQUE OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Concept of Freedom is the Key that explains the Autonomy of the Will, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . on the same page original: "ib.".
Freedom must be presupposed as a Property of the Will of all Rational Beings, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Of the Interest attaching to the Ideas of Morality, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
How is a Categorical Imperative possible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Of the Extreme Limits of all Practical Philosophy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Concluding Remark, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83