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The Doctrine of Virtue: Part 2 of The Metaphysic of Morals


Immanuel Kant - 1797
    [Ak. 6:205-355, 373-493] “The Metaphysics of Morals.” Trans. by Mary J. Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, ed. by Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, '96), pp.365-603. The two parts were published separately in Jan. & Aug.: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre (235pp) & Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre (190pp). The following year, apart from a scarcely altered 2nd edition of the Rechtslehre (which includes an appendix replying to Bouterwek’s review of the Rechtslehre that appeared 2/18/1797) he also published: Erläuternde Anmerkungen zu den metaphysischen Anfangsgründen der Rechtslehre (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798), 31pp. [Ak. 6:356-72]. “Explanatory Notes on the Metaphysical Foundations of the Doctrine of Right.” The Rechtslehre suffered from some printer's textual corruptions (Mautner '81). Textual reconstruction has been attempted in Bern Ludwig’s edition (Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, '86).