Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals ebook

The revolutionary claim that the nature of the principle that a person chooses to act upon determines the rightness of a course of action is made by Kant in this seminal work, which was published in 1785. Kant stands in blatant contrast to the teleological moral theories and moral sense theories that were prevalent at the time of his writing. The categorical imperative, or the idea that one must only behave in accordance with the precept that he or she would like to become a universal rule, plays a crucial part in the book.