Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy

This volume brings to English readers the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kants moral and legal philosophy. Examining Kants relation to predecessors such as Hutcheson Wolff and Baumgarten it clarifies the central issues in each of Kants major works in practical philosophy including The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals The Critique of Practical Reason and The Metaphysics of Morals. It also examines the relation of Kants philosophy to politics. Collectively the essays in this volume provide English readers with a direct view of how leading German philosophers are now regarding Kants revolutionary practical philosophy one of the outstanding achievements of German thought.