Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

by Immanuel Kant

92 pages· 1993· ISBN 9780872201668
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This expanded edition of James Ellington’s preeminent translation includes Ellington’s new translation of Kant’s essay “Of 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 disastrous consequences.

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