Description
Product ID: | 9780872201668 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Hackett Classics |
Title: | Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals |
Subtitle: | with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns |
Authors: | Author: Immanuel Kant, James W. Ellington |
Page Count: | 92 |
Subjects: | Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This is an expanded edition of James Ellington's translation of Kant's essay, in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful consequences. This expanded edition of James Ellington’s preeminent translation includes Ellington’s new translation of Kant’s essay Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of disastrous consequences. |
Imprint Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
Publisher Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1993-06-15 |