Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals also known as the Groundwork of the
Metaphysic 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 aspires to nothing less than this: to lay bare the fundamental principle of
morality and show that it applies to us. The Metaphysics of Morals is a work of political and
moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant. The work is divided into two main parts The Science of
Right which deals with the rights that people have or can acquire and the Doctrine of Virtue
which deals with the virtues they ought to acquire. The Critique of Practical Reason is the
second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and deals with his moral philosophy. Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804) was a German philosopher who according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
is the central figure of modern philosophy. Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human
mind structure human experience that reason is the source of morality that aesthetics arises
from a faculty of disinterested judgment that space and time are forms of our understanding
and that the world as it is in-itself is unknowable. Contents: - Fundamental Principles of the
Metaphysic of Morals - The Metaphysics of Morals - Philosophy of Law (The Science of Right) -
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics - The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral
Reasoning - Perpetual Peace
