Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott


CONTENTS

[ PREFACE ]

[ INTRODUCTION TO THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHICS ]

[ I. Exposition of the Conception of Ethics ]

[ II. Exposition of the Notion of an End which is also a Duty ]

[ REMARK ]

[ III. Of the Reason for conceiving an End which is also a Duty ]

[ IV. What are the Ends which are also Duties? ]

[ V. Explanation of these two Notions ]

[ A. OUR OWN PERFECTION ]

[ B. HAPPINESS OF OTHERS ]

[ VI. Ethics does not supply Laws for Actions (which is done by Jurisprudence), but only for the Maxims of Action ]

[ VII. Ethical Duties are of indeterminate, Juridical Duties of strict, Obligation ]

[ VIII. Exposition of the Duties of Virtue as Intermediate Duties ]

[ (1) OUR OWN PERFECTION as an end which is also a duty ]

[ (2) HAPPINESS OF OTHERS as an end which is also a duty ]

[ IX. What is a Duty of Virtue? ]

[ X. The Supreme Principle of Jurisprudence was Analytical; that of Ethics is Synthetical ]

[ XI. According to the preceding Principles, the Scheme of Duties of Virtue may be thus exhibited ]

[ XII. Preliminary Notions of the Susceptibility of the Mind for Notions of Duty generally ]

[ A. THE MORAL FEELING ]

[ B. OF CONSCIENCE ]

[ C. OF LOVE TO MEN ]

[ XIII. General Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals in the treatment of Pure Ethics ]

[ XIV. Of Virtue in General ]

[ XV. Of the Principle on which Ethics is separated from Jurisprudence ]

[ REMARKS ]

[ Of the Doctrine of Virtue on the Principle Of Internal Freedom. ]

[ XVI. Virtue requires, first of all, Command over Oneself ]

[ XVII. Virtue necessarily presupposes Apathy (considered as Strength) ]

[ REMARK ]

[ ON CONSCIENCE ]