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ISBN: 9780872201668 - Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
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Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

Immanuel Kant

ISBN: 9780872201668
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Edition: 3rd Revised edition


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This is an expanded edition of James Ellington's translation of Kant's essay, in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful consequences.

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This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translation of Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals includes his new translation of Kant's essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns', in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful consequences.
 
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