Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

knowledge. Much less does it deserve the name of moral philosophy, since by this confusion it spoils the purity of morals themse ...

concerning this important question, which has not yet been discussed nearly enough, would, of course, be clarified by applicatio ...

Some qualities seem to be conducive to this good will and can facilitate its action, but in spite of that they have no intrinsic ...

From this fact there arises in many persons, if only they are candid enough to admit it, a certain degree of misology, hatred of ...

may buy from him as cheaply as any other. Thus the customer is honestly served, but this is far from sufficient to warrant the b ...

even in this case if the universal inclination to happiness did not determine his will, and if health were not at least for him ...

conception of law in itself (which can be present only in a rational being) so far as this conception and not the hoped-for effe ...

myself: Would I be content that my maxim of extricating myself from difficulty by a false promise should hold as a universal law ...

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing, but it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself, being easily led astray. For this ...

It is, in fact, absolutely impossible by experience to discern with complete certainty a single case in which the maxim of an ac ...

morality. Even the Holy One of the Gospel must be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before He is recognized as such; e ...

itself to completeness and of requiring the public, which desires popularization, to await the outcome of this undertaking. But ...

In this study we do not advance merely from the common moral judgment (which here is very worthy of respect) to the philosophica ...

it can be determined to act by its own subjective constitution only through the concep- tion of the good. Thus no imperatives ho ...

merely uncertain and merely possible purpose, but as necessary to a purpose which we can a prioriand with assurance assume for e ...

Finally, there is one imperative which directly commands certain conduct without making its condition some purpose to be reached ...

and in every future condition. Now it is impossible for even a most clear-sighted and most capable but finite being to form here ...

Thus we shall have to investigate purely a priorithe possibility of a categorical imperative, for we do not have the advantage t ...

We shall now enumerate some duties, adopting the usual division of them into duties to ourselves and to others and into perfect ...

from him or even envy him; but to his welfare or to his assistance in time of need I have no desire to contribute.” If such a wa ...