This collection brings together in translation the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kant's moral and legal philosophy.

1. Introduction Karl Ameriks and Otfried Höffe; Part I. Early Conceptions: 2. Hutcheson and Kant Dieter Henrich; 3. The theory of obligation in Wolff, Baumgarten, and the early Kant Clemens Schwaiger; Part II. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: 4. What is the purpose of a metaphysics of morals? Some observations on the preface to the groundwork of the metaphysics of morals Ludwig Siep; 5. The transition from common rational to philosophical rational moral knowledge in the groundwork Dieter Schönecker; 6. Reason practical in its own right Gerold Prauss; 7. Kant's justification of the role of maxims in ethics Michael Albrecht; Part III. Critique of Practical Reason: 8. The form of the maxim as the determining ground of the will (critique of practical reason,

4-6, 27-30) Otfried Höffe; 9. On the concept of an object of pure practical reason (chapter two of the analytic of practical reason) Annemarie Pieper; 10. The dialectic of pure practical reason in the second critique (cprr 107-121) Eckart Förster; 11. The postulates of pure practical reason Friedo Ricken; Part IV. Legal and Political Philosophy: 12. On how to acquire something external, and especially on the right to things (a commentary on the metaphysics of morals

10-17) Kristian Kühl; 13. 'The civil constitution in a republican state shall be a republican one' Wolfgang Kersting; 14. Commentary on Kant's treatment of constitutional right (metaphysics of morals II: general remark A,

51-52; conclusion, appendix) Bernd Ludwig; 15. Refusing sovereign power - the relation between politics and philosophy in the modern age Volker Gerhardt.