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KANT ON THE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

KANT ON THE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. Kant’s Ethical Works in English

A. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill, Kaufs Critique of Practical Reason, and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics (Longmans, London, 1889). Reprinted in Library of Liberal Arts edition (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1949), entitled Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals.

Beck, Lewis White, Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Other Writings in Moral Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 1949). Reprinted in Library of Liberal Arts edition (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1959), entitled Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals.

Paton, H. J., The Moral Law: Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Barnes and Noble, New York City, 1961).

B. Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft

Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill. (See above.)

Beck, Lewis White. (See above.) Reprinted in Library of Liberal Arts edition (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1956), entitled Critique of Practical Reason.

C. Metaphysik der Sitten

Ladd, John, The Metaphysical Elements of Justice; Part I of the Metaphysics of Morals (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1965).

Ellington, James, The Metaphysical Principles of Virtue; Part II of the Metaphysics of Morals (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1964).

Gregor, Mary J., The Doctrine of Virtue; Part II of the Metaphysics of Morals (Harper, New York City, 1964).

D. Other Works

Beck, Lewis White, Perpetual Peace (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1957).

Greene, T. M., and Hudson, H. H., Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone (Harper, New York City, 1960).

Infield, Louis, Lectures on Ethics (Harper, New York City, 1963).

II. Books

Beck, Lewis White, A Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1960).

Caird, Edward, The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (Glasgow, 1909).

Duncan, A. R. C., Practical Reason and Morality: A Study of Immanuel Kant’s Foundations for the Metaphysics of Morals (Nelson, London, 1957).

Gregor, Mary J., Laws of Freedom (Barnes and Noble, New York City, 1963).

Jones, William T., Morality and Freedom in the Philosophy of Kant Oxford University Press, New York City, 1940).

Körner, S., Kant (Penguin, Baltimore, 1955).

Paton, H. J., The Categorical Imperative: A Study in Kant’s Moral Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1948).

Ross, Sir William D., Kant’s Ethical Theory: A Commentary on the Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (Oxford University Press, New York City, 1954).

Teale, A. E., Kantian Ethics (Oxford University Press, New York City, 1951).

Williams, T. C., The Concept of the Categorical Imperative (Oxford University Press, New York City, 1968).

Wolff, Robert P. (Ed.), Kant: A Collection of Critical Essays (Doubleday, Garden City, 1967).

III. Articles

(Those articles marked with an asterisk are reprinted in the Wolff collection of essays noted above.)

Chroust, A. H., “About a Fourth Formula of the Categorical Imperative,” Philosophical Review, 51 (1942), 600.

* Dietrichson, Paul, “What Does Kant Mean by 'Acting From Duty?" Kant-Studien, Band 53 (1962).

* Ebbinghaus, Julius, “Interpretation and Misinterpretation of the Categorical Imperative,” Philosophical Quarterly, 4 (1954), 97–108.

Ewing, A. C., “The Paradoxes of Kants Ethics,” Philosophy, 13 (1938), 40.

Gahringer, Robert, “The Metaphysical Aspects of Kant’s Moral Philosophy,” Ethics, (1953–54), 277–291.

Gregor, M. J., “Kant’s Conception of a Metaphysics of Morals,” Philosophical Quarterly, 10 (1960), 238–251.

Haezrahi, Pepita, “The Avowed and Unavowed Sources of Kant’s Theory of Ethics,” Ethics, (1961–62), 157–68.

*—, “The Concept of Man as an End-in-Himself,” Kant-Studien, Band 53 (1962).

* Harrison, Jonathan, “Kant’s Examples of the First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative,” Philosophical Quarterly, 7 (1957), 50–62.

*—, “The Categorical Imperative,” Philosophical Quarterly, 8 (1958), 360–64.

* Kemp, J., “Kant’s Examples of the Categorical Imperative,” Philosophical Quarterly, 8 (1958), 63–71.

Hirst, E. W., “The Categorical Imperative and the Golden Rule,” Philosophy, 9 (1934), 328.

Hoernle, R. F. A., “Kant’s Concept of the 'Intrinsic Worth' of Every 'Rational Being',” Personalist, 24, 130.

—, “Kant’s Theory of Freedom,” Personalist, 20, 391.

Jensen, O. C., “Kant’s Ethical Formalism,” Philosophy, 9, (1934), 195.

Reich, Klaus, “Kant and Greek Ethics,” Mind, 48 (1939), 338, 446.

Kolenda, K., “Professor Ebbinghaus' Interpretation of the Categorical Imperative,” Philosophical Quarterly, 5 (1955), 74–77.

* Matson, W. I., “Kant as Casuist,” Journal of Philosophy, 51 (1954), 855–860.

Paton, H. J., “The Aim and Structure of Kant’s Grundlegung Philosophical Quarterly, 8 (1958), 112–130.

Schrader, George, “Autonomy, Heteronomy and Moral Imperatives,” Journal of Philosophy, 60 (1963), 65–77.

Schroeder, H. H., “Some Common Misinterpretations of the Kantian Ethics,” Philosophical Review, 49 (1940), 424.

Silber, John R., “The Importance of the Highest Good in Kant’s Ethics,” Ethics, (1962–63), 179–197.

—, “The Context of Kant’s Ethical Thought,” Philosophical Quarterly, 9 (1959), 193–207, 309–318.

*—, “The Copernican Revolution in Ethics: The Good Reexamined,” Kant-Studien, Band 51 (1959).

Singer, Marcus, “The Categorical Imperative,” Philosophical Review, 63 (1954), 577–591.

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