Immanuel Kant: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft

Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788) is often unjustly overshadowed by the Critique of Pure Reason and the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. In fact, the basic elements of Kant's moral philosophy are still widely recognised today, in contrast to many of the theses of the first Critique, and it is only the proof of the second Critique that freedom is real that constitutes 'the keystone of the whole edifice of a system of pure, even speculative reason'. Along the lines of pure will, the law-giving form of the maxim, transcendental freedom, autonomy and the fact of reason, Kant shows in the 'Analytic' that pure reason can be practical 'for itself', namely that it can determine the will. The 'Dialectic' secures objective reality for the ideas of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul and examines the relationship between theoretical and practical reason. Finally, the 'Methodenlehre' outlines a theory of moral education that is still relevant to ethics education today.

The twelve contributions to this co-operative commentary, published in a 3rd, revised edition on the occasion of Immanuel Kant's 300th anniversary, reconstruct the arguments of a key text of moral philosophy and test its factual persuasiveness.

With contributions by: Karl Ameriks, Reinhard Brandt, Eckart F&ouml,rster, Otfried H&ouml,ffe Allen W. Wood Christoph Horn, G. Felicitas Munzel, Onora O'Neill Annemarie Pieper, Friedo Ricken, Nico Scarano.