Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in ...

The philosopher Immanuel Kant said that rational human beings should be treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to something else. The fact that we are human has value in itself.

This course offers an introduction to and critical appraisal of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy ... The core text will be the Doctrine of Right (Part 1 of The Metaphysics of Morals). The course ...