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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Texts and References -- Introduction -- PART I: TOWARDS THE METHODS OF ETHICS -- 1. The Development of Sidgwick's Thought -- i. Sidgwick's Life -- ii. Religion in the 1860s -- iii. Sidgwick's Religious Development -- iv. Sidgwick's Writings on Religion -- v. Sidgwick's Early Ethical Views -- vi. Sidgwick on Knowledge and Philosophy -- 2. Intuitionism and Common Sense -- i. Reid's Ethics -- ii. The Scottish School -- iii. Thomas Brown -- iv. Alexander Smith -- 3. The Cambridge Moralists -- i. Coleridge -- ii. The Coleridgeans -- iii. Whewell's Ethics: The System -- iv. Whewell's Ethics: The Difficulties -- v. John Grote -- 4. The Early Utilitarians -- i. Utility and Religion -- ii. Bentham -- iii. Godwin -- iv. Early Criticism -- 5. The Reworking of Utilitarianism -- i. Utilitarians and Rules -- ii. J. S. Mill: Philosophy and Society -- iii. Some Further Criticisms of Utilitarianism -- iv. The Other Utilitarians -- v. Mill's Utilitarianism and its Reception -- PART II: THE METHODS OF ETHICS -- 6. The Aims and Scope of The Methods of Ethics -- i. The Focus on Common Sense -- ii. The Relation of Method to Principle -- iii. The Basic Methods -- iv. Ethics, Epistemology, and Psychology -- v. Ethics and Free Will -- vi. The Limits to Synthesis -- 7. Reason and Action -- i. The Basic Notion -- ii. Reason, Right, Ought, and Good -- iii. The Neutrality of Practical Concepts -- iv. Scepticism -- Appendix: The Development of I, iii and I, ix -- 8. Acts and Agents -- i. Martineau's Theory -- ii. The Religious Context of Martineau's Theory -- iii. Sidgwick's Criticisms: The Data -- iv. Sidgwick's Criticisms: The Theory -- v. The Outcome of the Controversy -- 9. The Examination of Common-Sense Morality -- i. The Role of the Examination -- ii. The Principles of the Examination -- iii. Common Sense Examined.

"A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of Hume's ethical naturalism." -Martha C. Nussbaum, Brown University

This volume contains four versions of the lecture notes taken by Kant's students of his university courses in ethics given regularly over a period of some thirty years. The notes are very complete and expound not only Kant's views on ethics but many of his opinions on life and human nature. Much of this material has never before been translated into English. As with other volumes in the series, there are copious linguistic and explanatory notes and a glossary of key terms

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important texts in the history of ethics. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries.This new edition of Kant's work provides a fresh translation that is uniquely faithful to the German original and more fully annotated than any previous translation. There are also four essays by well-known scholars that discuss Kant's views and the philosophical issues raised by the Groundwork. J.B. Schneewind defends the continuing interest in Kantian ethics by examining its historical relation both to the ethical thought that preceded it and to its influence on the ethical theories that came after it; Marcia Baron sheds light on Kant's famous views about moral motivation; and Shelly Kagan and Allen W. Wood advocate contrasting interpretations of Kantian ethics and its practical implications