Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals Immanuel Kant - How should human beings behave toward one another? How must we behave? One of the most influential thinkers of the Western ...

Kant’s final work in moral philosophy, Die Metaphysik der Sitten, currently occupies the centre of scholarly attention. One of the reasons for this is the lack of consensus over how to understand the ...

Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is ...

Alasdair MacIntyre, from a 1993 review of Iris Murdoch’s philosophical study Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals: This book is a salutary and needed reminder of the intellectual and moral power of the ...

Philosophy can provide insights regarding raising a moral child. For example, Immanuel Kant, in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, wrote that "the only qualified good thing is a good will." By ...

This is the third in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. In the last post, we discussed how our tastes, preferences ...