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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

A work by Immanuel Kant

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Nothing in the world, or out of it, can be called good without qualification except a good will, A good will seems to be the indispensable condition of even deserving happiness, Duty is the necessity of acting out of respect for the law …

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Edition korrents quotes
tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 18732
Claims on korrents
81

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Nothing in the world, or out of it, can be called good without qualification except a good will (opens korrents.com)1

  2. A good will seems to be the indispensable condition of even deserving happiness (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Duty is the necessity of acting out of respect for the law (opens korrents.com)1

  4. There is only one categorical imperative: act only on a maxim you could at the same time will to become a universal law (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Act so as to treat humanity, in yourself or in anyone else, always as an end and never as a means only (opens korrents.com)1

  6. In the kingdom of ends, what can be replaced by an equivalent has value; what is above all value and admits no equivalent has dignity (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 1873) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 1873) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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