Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals : with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns

Author: Kant, Immanuel, Ellington, James W.

Humanities

Published on 1 December 1981 by Hackett Publishing Co, Inc.

This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translation includes Ellington's new translation of Kant's essay Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of disastrous consequences.