"Conscience is practical reason holding the human being's duty before him for his acquittal or condemnation in every case that comes under a law."
— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Königsberg
Publisher
Friedrich Nicolovius
Date
1797-8, 1799
Metaphor
"Conscience is practical reason holding the human being's duty before him for his acquittal or condemnation in every case that comes under a law."
Metaphor in Context
Conscience is practical reason holding the human being's duty before him for his acquittal or condemnation in every case that comes under a law.
(MS 6:400)
(MS 6:400)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Allen W. Wood's Kantian Ethics. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2007. p. 184.
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1799).
See The Metaphysic of Morals, Divided Into Metaphysical Elements of Law and of Ethics, by Emanuel Kant ... from the German by the Translator of Kant’s Essays and Treatises. in Two Volumes. (London [i.e. Hamburg]: printed for the translator; and sold by William Richardson, 1799). <Link to ESTC>
See also Die Metaphysik der Sitten in zwei Teilen (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1797); 2nd edition: 1798. [Ak. 6:205-355, 373-493] -- Also reading "The Metaphysics of Morals." Trans. by Mary J. Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, Ed. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 365-603.
See The Metaphysic of Morals, Divided Into Metaphysical Elements of Law and of Ethics, by Emanuel Kant ... from the German by the Translator of Kant’s Essays and Treatises. in Two Volumes. (London [i.e. Hamburg]: printed for the translator; and sold by William Richardson, 1799). <Link to ESTC>
See also Die Metaphysik der Sitten in zwei Teilen (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1797); 2nd edition: 1798. [Ak. 6:205-355, 373-493] -- Also reading "The Metaphysics of Morals." Trans. by Mary J. Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, Ed. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 365-603.
Date of Entry
02/04/2010
