Abstract
Summary Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals appeared in 1797. The metaphysics of morals contains all the principles that "determine action and omission a priori and make them necessary". It will be "pure morality, which is not grounded on any anthropology. Kant's Groundwork clearly meant for an antecedent of the Metaphysics of Morals. Kant had to promise that he would not publish on religious topics, but any Metaphysics of Morals had to include a discussion of the relations between morality and religion. This chapter divides Kant's deferment of the proposed Metaphysics of Morals into three periods, with the first one dating from 1762 to about 1770, the second one from 1770 to 1785, and the third period from 1785 to 1797. The lectures that were most relevant for Metaphysics of Morals were those on natural law, on ethics, and on anthropology.
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