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The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

17 chapters, about 6,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 900 words
2. I. Exposition of the Conception of Ethics 400 words
3. II. Exposition of the Notion of an End which is also a Duty 400 words
4. III. Of the Reason for conceiving an End which is also a Duty 200 words
5. B. HAPPINESS OF OTHERS 300 words
6. VI. Ethics does not supply Laws for Actions (which is done by 200 words
7. VII. Ethical Duties are of indeterminate, Juridical Duties of 200 words
8. VIII. Exposition of the Duties of Virtue as Intermediate Duties 800 words
9. IX. What is a Duty of Virtue? 900 words
10. XII. Preliminary Notions of the Susceptibility of the Mind for 100 words
11. A. THE MORAL FEELING 400 words
12. B. OF CONSCIENCE 200 words
13. D. OF RESPECT 200 words
14. XIII. General Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals in the 100 words
15. XIV. Of Virtue in General 300 words
16. XVII. Virtue necessarily presupposes Apathy (considered as 200 words
17. ON CONSCIENCE 400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ahimsa
• Conscience
• Duty
• Ethics
• Virtue

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