The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. Immanuel Kant

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       INTRODUCTION TO THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHICS

       I. Exposition of the Conception of Ethics

       II. Exposition of the Notion of an End which is also a Duty

       REMARK

       III. Of the Reason for conceiving an End which is also a Duty

       IV. What are the Ends which are also Duties?

       V. Explanation of these two Notions

       A. OUR OWN PERFECTION

       B. HAPPINESS OF OTHERS

       VI. Ethics does not supply Laws for Actions (which is done by. Jurisprudence) , but only for the Maxims of Action

       VII. Ethical Duties are of indeterminate, Juridical Duties of strict,. Obligation

       VIII. Exposition of the Duties of Virtue as Intermediate Duties

       (1) OUR OWN PERFECTION as an end which is also a duty

       (2) HAPPINESS OF OTHERS as an end which is also a duty

       IX. What is a Duty of Virtue?

       X. The Supreme Principle of Jurisprudence was Analytical; that of Ethics. is Synthetical

       XI. According to the preceding Principles, the Scheme of Duties of Virtue. may be thus exhibited

       XII. Preliminary Notions of the Susceptibility of the Mind for Notions of. Duty generally

       A. THE MORAL FEELING

       B. OF CONSCIENCE

       C. OF LOVE TO MEN

       D. OF RESPECT

       XIII. General Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals in the treatment of. Pure Ethics

       XIV. Of Virtue in General

       XV. Of the Principle on which Ethics is separated from Jurisprudence

       REMARKS

       Of the Doctrine of Virtue on the Principle Of Internal Freedom.

       XVI. Virtue requires, first of all, Command over Oneself

       XVII. Virtue necessarily presupposes Apathy (considered as Strength)

       REMARK

       ON CONSCIENCE

       THE END