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The Critique of Practical Reason

Immanuel Kant

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 168 pages

The Critique of Practical Reason is Immanuel Kant’s 1788 philosophical treatise on moral philosophy and the nature of practical reason. It asks whether pure reason can be practical, and it develops ideas of moral law, freedom, and autonomy. It rewards listeners seeking a foundational work in modern ethics.

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THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL
REASON
By Immanuel Kant
1788
Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
This work is called the Critique of Practical Reason,
not of the pure practical reason, although its parallelism
with the speculative critique would seem to require the
latter term. The reason of this appears sufficiently from
the treatise itself. Its business is to show that there is
pure practical reason, and for this purpose it criticizes

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Contents

  1. THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON
  2. 1788
  3. PREFACE.
  4. INTRODUCTION.
  5. Of the Idea of a Critique of Practical Reason.
  6. FIRST PART — ELEMENTS OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON.
  7. BOOK I. The Analytic of Pure Practical Reason.
  8. CHAPTER I. Of the Principles of Pure Practical Reason.
  9. I. DEFINITION.
  10. REMARK.
  11. II. THEOREM I.
  12. III. THEOREM II.
  13. REMARK I.
  14. REMARK II.
  15. IV. THEOREM II.
  16. REMARK.
  17. V. PROBLEM I.
  18. REMARK.
  19. VII. FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE PURE PRACTICAL REASON.
  20. REMARK.
  21. COROLLARY.
  22. REMARK.
  23. VIII. THEOREM IV.
  24. REMARK.
  25. REMARK II.
  26. Practical Material Principles of Determination taken as the Foundation of Morality, are:
  27. BOOK1|CHAPTER1 ^paragraph 105
  28. I. Of the Deduction of the Fundamental Principles of Pure
  29. II. Of the Right that Pure Reason in its Practical use has to an Extension which is not possible to it in its Speculativ
  30. CHAPTER II. Of the Concept of an Object of Pure Practical Reason.

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