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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

4 chapters, about 27,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 2,200 words
2. OF MORALITY TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL 4,900 words
3. TO THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS 13,100 words
4. CRITIQUE OF PURE PRACTICAL REASON 6,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Duty
• Free will
• Freedom
• Maxim (philosophy)
• Practical reason
• Prerogative
• Principle
• Rationality
• Reason
• Self-control

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