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Paul Guyer is the Florence R. C. Murray Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Kant and the Claims of Taste (Cambridge) and Kant and the Experience of Freedom (Cambridge), the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kant, and the co-editor and translator with Allen Wood of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Cambridge, forthcoming).
Part 1 Historical Background
Chapter 2 Natural Law/ Skepticism/ and Methods of Ethics
Part 3 The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative (Groundwork I)
Chapter 4 The Argument of Kant's Groundwork
Chapter 5 Kant's Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork I
Chapter 6 Kant's Good Will and Our Good Nature
Part 7 The Categorical Imperative and Its Formulations (Groundwork II)
Chapter 8 Consistency in Action
Chapter 9 Mutual Aid and Respect for Persons
Chapter 10 Humanity as End in Itself
Chapter 11 The Categorical Imperative
Chapter 12 The Possibility of the Categorical Imperative
Part 13 The Categorical Imperative and Freesom of the Will (Groundwork III)
Chapter 14 Kant's Argument for the Rationality of Moral Conduct
Chapter 15 Morality and Freedom: Kant's Reciprocity Thesis
Chapter 16 The Deduction of the Moral Law: The Reasons for the Obscurity of the Final Section of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
In gathering these essays into a single, affordable volume, the publishers have provided a valuable resource for both students and teachers of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It is a welcome addition to a valuable new series.
— Review of Metaphysics