Kantian ethics

References and further reading

	Fried, C. (1978) Right and Wrong, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Forthright defence of deontological ethics.)
	Gewirth, A. (1978) Reason and Morality, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (Rational justification of deontological ethics.)
	Habermas, J. (1993) Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, trans. W. Rehg, Cambridge: Polity Press. (Habermas’ most recent extended discussion of questions of normative justification.)
	Herman, B. (1993) The Practice of Moral Judgement, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Essays on the use of Kantian ethical reasoning; argues that it can be sensitive to context.)
	Hill, T.E., Jr. (1992) Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant’s Moral Theory, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Essays on Kant’s ethics, and especially on respect for persons.)
	Kant, I. (1785) Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, in Kants gesammelte Schriften, ed. Königlichen Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin: Reimer, vol. 4, 1903; trans. with notes by H.J. Paton, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (originally The Moral Law), London: Hutchinson, 1948; repr. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. (References made to this work in the entry give the page number from the 1903 Berlin Akademie volume; these page numbers are included in the Paton translation. This is Kant’s classic, short, if difficult, introduction to ethics.)
	Kant, I. (1788) Kritik der practischen Vernunft, trans. L.W. Beck, Critique of Practical Reason, New York: Macmillan, Library of Liberal Arts, 1993. (Kant’s most abstract account of his ethics; particular stress on reason and the highest good.)
	Kant, I. (1797) Die Metaphysik der Sitten, trans. M.J. Gregor, The Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. (Kant’s accounts of justice and of the virtues.)
	Korsgaard, C.M. (1996) Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Essays on the categorical imperative and its implications.)
	Mac Intyre, A. (1981) After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, London: Duckworth. (Vigorous criticism of Kantian ethics from a distinctive neo-Aristotelian viewpoint.)
	O’ Neill, O. (1989) Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant’s Practical Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Essays on Kant’s vindication of reason and its implications for ethics.)
	O’ Neill, O. (1996) ‘‘Kant’s Virtues’, in R. Crisp (ed.) How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 77–97. (Critical account of Kant on virtue.)
	Rawls, J. (1971) A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Very influential work on liberal political philosophy; many Kantian aspects.)
	Rawls, J. (1980) ‘Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory’ (The Dewey Lectures), Journal of Philosophy 77: 515–72. (Rawls’ reconsideration of his theory of justice; discusses the importance of pluralism and the impossibility of justifying a conception of the good to all.)
	Rawls, J. (1993) Political Liberalism, New York: Columbia University Press. (Reworks Rawls’ theory of justice, grounding it in a distinctive conception of public reason.)
	Williams, B. (1985) Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and London: Fontana. (Varied and thoughtful criticism of Kantian ethics.)