Acknowledgments
J. B. Schneewind, Natural Law, Skepticism, and Methods of Ethics, originally appeared in Journal of the History of Ideas (1991). Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher.
Nelson Potter, The Argument of Kants Groundwork, Chapter 1, originally published in Canadian Journal of Philosophy , SV 1, Part 1 (1974): 73-91. Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher.
Christine M. Korsgaard, Kants Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork I, originally appeared in The Monist 72 (1989): 311-39. Copyright 1989, The Monist, La Salle, Illinois 61301. Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher.
Tom Sorell, Kants Good Will and Our Good Nature, originally appeared in Kant-Studien 78 (1987): 87-101. Reprinted by permission of the author and Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Onora ONeill, Consistency in Action, originally appeared in Universality and Morality: Essays on Ethical Universalizability, ed. N. Potter and M. Timmons (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing, 1985). Reprinted with kind permission from Kluwer Academic Publishers and the author.
Barbara Herman, Mutual Aid and Respect for Persons, originally appeared in Ethics 94 (1984): 577-602. Reprinted by permission of the author and University of Chicago Press.
Allen Wood, Humanity As End in Itself, originally appeared in Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, vol. 1, part 1 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995), 30119. Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher.
Thomas W. Pogge, The Categorical Imperative, originally appeared in Grundlegung der Metaphysik der Sitten: Ein kooperativer Kommentar, ed. Ottfried Hffe (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989), 172-93. Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher.
Paul Guyer, The Possibility of the Categorical Imperative, originally appeared in Philosophical Review 104 (1995): 353-85. Copyright 1995 Cornell University. Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher.
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Kants Argument for the Rationality of Moral Conduct, originally appeared in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1985): 3-23. Reprinted by permission of the author and publisher. The essay is reprinted in this volume as it appeared in Hills Dignity and Practical Reason in Kants Moral Theory (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992).
Henry E. Allison, Morality and Freedom: Kants Reciprocity Thesis, originally appeared in Philosophical Review 95 (1986): 393-425. Copyright 1986 Cornell University. Reprinted here by permission of the author and publisher.
Dieter Henrich, The Deduction of the Moral Law: The Reasons for the Obscurity of the Final Section of Kants Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, originally appeared in German in Denken im Schatten des Nihilismus, ed. Alexander Schwann (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1975), 55-110. Translated with permission of the author and publisher.
About the Authors
Henry E. Allison is professor of philosophy at Boston University and was previously professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, for many years. His numerous books include Lessing and the Enlightenment (1966), The Kant-Eberhard Controversy (1973), Kants Transcendental Idealism (1983), Kants Theory of Freedom (1990), and Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kants Theoretical and Practical Philosophy (1996).
Paul Guyer is the Florence R. C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979, 1997), Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (1987), and Kant and the Experience of Freedom (1993). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kant (1992). With Allen W. Wood, he is the editor and translator of Kants Critique of Pure Reason in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant (1998). He has also edited Essays in Kants Aesthetics with Ted Cohen (1982) and Pursuits of Reason with Ted Cohen and Hilary Putnam (1993).
Dieter Henrich is professor of philosophy, emeritus, at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitt, Munich. Two collections of his essays have been translated into English: The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kants Philosophy (1994) and Aesthetic Judgment and the Moral Image of the World: Studies in Kant (1992). Among his numerous books in German, some of the most important are Der Ontologische Gottesbeweis (second edition, 1960), Hegel im Kontext (1971), Identitt und Objektivitt (1976), Selbstverhltnisse (1982), Der Gang des Andenkens (1986), and Konstellationen: Probleme und Debatten am Ursprung der ideal-istischen Philosophie (1991).
Barbara Herman is Griffin Chair of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Practice of Moral Judgment (1993) and the editor, along with Christine M. Korsgaard and Andrews Reath, of Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays in Honor of John Rawls (1997).
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., is Kenan Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many papers on both Kantian and contemporary ethics have been collected in Dignity and Practical Reason in Kants Moral Theory (1992) and Autonomy and Self-Respect (1991).
Christine M. Korsgaard is professor of philosophy at Harvard University. She is the author of Creating the Kingdom of Ends (1996) and The Sources of Normativity (1996), and, along with Barbara Herman and Andrews Reath, editor of Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays in Honor of John Rawls (1997).
Onora ONeill is professor of philosophy and principal of Newnham College, Cambridge University. She has written widely on moral and political philosophy. Her books include Acting on Principle (1975), The Faces of Hunger (1986), Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kants Practical Philosophy (1989), and Towards Justice and Virtue (1996).
Thomas W. Pogge is associate professor of philosophy at Columbia University. In addition to many articles on ethics and political philosophy, he has published Realizing Rawls (1989) and John Rawls (1994, in German).
Nelson Potter is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska. In addition to his numerous articles on Kants moral and political philosophy, he has edited, with Mark Timmons, Morality and Universality: Essays on Ethical Universalizability (1985).
J. B. Schneewind is professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His many publications include Background of Victorian English Literature (1970), Sidgwicks Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy (1975), the two-volume anthology Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant (1990), and The Invention of Autonomy (1998). With Peter Heath, he is editor of Kants Lectures on Ethics for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant (1997).
Tom Sorell is professor of philosophy at the University of Essex (England). His publications include Hobbes in The Arguments of the Philosophers (1986), Descartes (1987), Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (1987), and Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science (1991); he has also edited The Rise of Modern Philosophy: The Tension between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz (1993) and The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (1996).
Allen Wood is professor of philosophy at Yale University, having been for many years previously professor of philosophy at Cornell. His many publications include Kants Moral Religion (1970), Kants Rational Theology (1978), Karl Marx in The Arguments of the Philosophers (1981), and Hegels Ethical Thought (1990). As editor and translator, he has produced, with Gertrude Clark, Kants Lectures on Rational Theology (1978); with H. B. Nisbet, Hegels Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1991); with George De Giovanni, Kants Religion and Rational Theology in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant (1996); and with Paul Guyer, Kants Critique of Pure Reason in the same series (1998). He has also edited Self and Nature in Kants Philosophy (1984).