Front matter

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Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

CONTENTS

PREFACE

FIRST SECTION—TRANSITION FROM THE COMMON RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF MORALITY TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL

SECOND SECTION—TRANSITION FROM POPULAR MORAL PHILOSOPHY TO THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS

The Autonomy of the Will as the Supreme Principle of Morality

Heteronomy of the Will as the Source of all spurious Principles of Morality

Classification of all Principles of Morality which can be founded on the Conception of Heteronomy

THIRD SECTION—TRANSITION FROM THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS TO THE CRITIQUE OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON

The Concept of Freedom is the Key that explains the Autonomy of the Will

Freedom must be presupposed as a Property of the Will of all Rational Beings

Of the Interest attaching to the Ideas of Morality

How is a Categorical Imperative Possible?

Of the Extreme Limits of all Practical Philosophy.

CONCLUDING REMARK