Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant Audiobook
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Sounded ID: 9781662138591

ISBN: 9781662138591

Publication Date: August 27, 2020

Publisher: Author's Republic

Language: English

Author Name: Immanuel Kant

Narrator Name: John Riddle

Studio Narrated Audiobook 3 hrs 54 mins | PHILOSOPHY

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

Author
Immanuel Kant
Publisher
Author's Republic
Narrator
John Riddle

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, and the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals) is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and remains one of the most influential in the field. Kant conceives his investigation as a work of foundational ethics—one that clears the ground for future research by explaining the core concepts and principles of moral theory, and showing that they are normative for rational agents.

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, and the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals) is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and remains one of the most influential in the field. Kant conceives his investigation as a work of foundational ethics—one that clears the ground for future research by explaining the core concepts and principles of moral theory, and showing that they are normative for rational agents.
Kant purposes to lay bare the fundamental principle of morality and show that it applies to us. Central to the work is the role of what Kant refers to as the categorical imperative, the concept that one must act only according to that precept which he or she would will to become a universal law. He provides a groundbreaking argument that the rightness of an action is determined by the principle that a person chooses to act upon. This stands in stark contrast to the moral sense theories and teleological moral theories that dominated moral philosophy at the time of Kant's career.
The Groundwork is broken into a preface, followed by three sections. Kant's argument works from common reason up to the supreme unconditional law, in order to identify its existence. He then works backwards from there to prove the relevance and weight of the moral law. The book is famously obscure, and it is partly because of this that Kant later, in 1788, decided to publish the Critique of Practical Reason.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. opening

0 mins 13 secs

2. 01 - Preface

16 mins 57 secs

3. 02 - First Section

39 mins 38 secs

4. 03 - Transition From Popular Moral Philosophy To The Metaphysic Of Morals

48 mins 53 secs

5. 04 - Second Section Part B

47 mins 48 secs

6. 05 - Second Section Part C

24 mins 14 secs

7. 06 - Third Section

54 mins 13 secs

8. closing

0 mins 13 secs

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