Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

English editions and translations

  • 1895. Fundamental principles of the metaphysics of ethics, translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
    • 1949. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, tr. T. K. Abbott, introduction by Marvin Fox. Indianapolis, NY: Bobbs-Merrill.
    • 2005. Fundamental principles of the metaphysics of ethics, tr. T. K. Abbott. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-44309-4 (pbk.)
    • 2005. Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals, tr. T. K. Abbott, edited with revisions by Lara Denis. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. ISBN 1-55111-539-5
  • 1938. The fundamental principles of the metaphysic of ethics, translated by Otto Manthey-Zorn. New York: D. Appleton-Century.
  • 1948. The Moral Law, translated by Herbert James Paton. London: Hutchinson's University Library.
    • 1967. The Moral Law; Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, translated by H. J. Paton. New York: Barnes & Noble Books.
    • 1991 The Moral Law: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, tr. H. J. Paton. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07843-1.
  • 1949. "Metaphysical Foundations of Morals," tr. Carl J. Friedrich in The philosophy of Kant; Immanuel Kant's moral and political writings, edited by Carl J. Friedrich. New York: Modern Library.
  • 1959 Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, and What is Enlightenment?, translated with an introduction by Lewis White Beck. New York: Liberal Arts Press.
    • 1969. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, tr. L. W. Beck, with critical essays edited by Robert Paul Wolff. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
    • 1990. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and What is Enlightenment (2nd ed., revised), translated with an introduction by L. W. Beck. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-307825-1.
  • 1970. Kant on the foundation of morality; a modern version of the Grundlegung, translated with commentary by Brendan E. A. Liddell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253331714 (pbk).
  • 1981 Grounding for the metaphysics of morals, translated by James Wesley Ellington. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. ISBN 0-915145-01-4, 0-915145-00-6 (pbk.).
    • 1983. Ethical philosophy: the complete texts of Grounding for the metaphysics of morals, and Metaphysical principles of virtue, part II of The metaphysics of morals, tr. J. W. Ellington, with an introduction by Warner A. Wick. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. ISBN 0-915145-43-X, 0-915145-44-8.
    • 1993. Grounding for the metaphysics of morals; with, On a supposed right to lie because of philanthropic concerns (3rd ed.), tr. J. W. Ellington. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. ISBN 0-87220-167-8, 0-87220-166-X.
    • 1994. Ethical philosophy : the complete texts of grounding for the metaphysics of morals and metaphysical principles of virtue, tr. J. W. Ellington. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. ISBN 0-87220-321-2, 0-87220-320-4.
  • 1998. Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals, translated by Mary J. Gregor, with an introduction by Christine Korsgaard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-62235-2, 0-521-62695-1.
  • 2002. Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals, translated Arnulf Zweig, edited by Thomas E. Hill, Jr. and Arnulf Zweig. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-875180-X.
  • 2002. Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals, translated Allen W. Wood, with essays by J. B. Schneewind, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09486-8, 0-300-09487-6.
  • 2005. Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals, edited for easier reading by Jonathan F. Bennett.
  • 2011. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A German-English Edition, edited and translated by Mary Gregor and Jens Timmermann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51457-6.
  • 2013. Groundlaying toward the Metaphysics of Morals, two translations (one for scholars, one for students) in multiple formats, by Stephen Orr.
  • 2019. 'Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals', edited and translated by Christopher Bennett, Joe Saunders and Robert Stern. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198786191.

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