Abstract

The book is a collection of twelve previously published essays with a selective bibliography and a new introduction by Guyer providing a brief, systematic overview of Kant’s book and the rationale governing the organization of the essays. Guyer’s introduction gives the reader an outline of Kant’s main arguments in the Groundwork by section and introduces some of the more basic issues at stake, for example, Kant’s need both to formulate the fundamental principle of morality and prove its practical as well as its theoretical validity, Kant’s defense of freedom over determinism, as well as more abstract issues such as whether or not Kant’s method in the Groundwork is analytic or synthetic throughout. Each essay is introduced in relation to one of the issues raised, and the introduction is thus well suited to the college student, the target audience of the series, and at the same time of interest to more advanced scholars.