The Critique of Practical Reason
The Critique of Practical Reason, published in 1788, is Immanuel Kant's systematic account of morality, written three years after the Groundwork and intended to show that pure reason can be practical, that is, can determine the will by itself. Kant argues that the moral law is a fact of reason that every person recognizes, that it presupposes freedom, and that it commands independently of any desire for happiness. From it he derives the postulates of practical reason, the immortality of the soul and the existence of God, as conditions of the highest good, and he closes with the famous sentence about the starry heavens above and the moral law within. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott's translation has served English readers since 1873. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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