Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

Kant’s condensation of the Critique, the Prolegomena to Any Future Meta-

physics, his Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals,and the essay, “On a

Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives,” are all given here (complete) in

the Lewis White Beck translations. The marginal page numbers are those of all

scholarly editions.

Among the many available books on Kant, Stephen Körner,Kant(Baltimore,

MD: Penguin Books, 1955) is almost universally accepted as the best introduc-

tion. John Kemp,The Philosophy of Kant(Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1968); Ralph C.S. Walker,Kant: The Arguments of the Philosophers(London:

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978); C.D. Broad,Kant: An Introduction(Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1978); Ernst Cassirer,Kant’s Life and Thought,

translated by James Haden (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982);

Ermanno Bencivenga,Kant’s Copernican Revolution(Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 1987); Otfried Höffe,Immanuel Kant, translated by Marshall Farrier

(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994); Ralph Walker,Kant(London: Routledge,

1999); Manfred Kuehn,Kant: A Biography(Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2001); Allen W. Wood,Kant(Oxford: Blackwell, 2005); Paul Guyer,Kant

(Abbington, UK: Routledge, 2006); and T.K. Seung,Kant: A Guide for the

Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2007) are also helpful. Justus Hartnack,Kant’s

Theory of Knowledge(Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2001); Georges Dicker,Kant’s

Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction(Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 2004); and Wayne Waxman,Kant and the Empiricists: Understanding

Understanding(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) provide help with

Kant’s epistemology. For works on Kant’s moral theory, see W.D. Ross,Kant’s

Ethical Theory: A Commentary on theGrundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

[Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954);

H.J. Paton,The Categorical Imperative(London: 1947; reprinted, New York:

Harper & Row, 1967); Roger Sullivan, An Introduction to Kant’s Ethics

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Marcia W. Baron,Kantian

Ethics Almost Without Apology(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999);

Allen W. Wood,Kant’s Ethical Thought(Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1999); Paul Guyer,Kant’sGroundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals:A

Reader’s Guide(London: Continuum, 2007); and Jens Timmermann,Kant’s

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2007). Howard Caygill,A Kant Dictionary(Oxford:

Basil Blackwell, 1995) provides a useful reference work. For collections of

essays, see Lewis White Beck, ed., Studies in the Philosophy of Kant

(Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965); R.P. Wolff, ed.,Kant(Garden City, NY:

Doubleday, 1967); Ralph C.S. Walker, ed.,Kant on Pure Reason(Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 1982); Beryl Logan, ed.,Immanuel Kant’s Prolegomena to Any

Future Metaphysicsin Focus(Oxford: Routledge, 1996); Robin May Schott, ed.,

Feminist Interpretations of Kant(College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University

Press, 1997); Heiner Klemme, ed.,Immanuel Kant,2 volumes (New York: Ashgate,

1999); Paul Guyer, ed.,The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern

Philosophy(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); and Daniel Garber

and Beatrice Longuenesse, eds.,Kant and the Early Moderns(Princeton:

Princeton University Press, 2008).

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