The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals

Immanuel Kant - the greatest philosopher of Western Europe, one of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment, the progenitor of German classical philosophy, the founder of critical idealism, who made a decisive contribution to the development of the European philosophical tradition. Only a rational being has a will, by which it is capable of acting according to principles. And only a rational being, in achieving its desires, is capable of being guided by the law of morality. This and much more is discussed in the work «The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals», which served as a preface to «Critique of Practical Reason». The collection also includes «Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View» - Kant's last major work, written on the basis of lecture notes, which presents a systematization of contemporary philosophical knowledge about man.