Reflections on Moral Philosophy

It is said that Kant had the habit of writing down scientific reflections that interested him, worried him or bothered him, but he also used to take note of things that crossed his mind and that, if he had not written them down at that very moment, he could easily have forgotten. The result of that habit are several of the volumes that make up the complete works of the philosopher from Köningsberg. Of all these notes, which for some have little value and for others, like Dilthey, are essential to investigate the evolution of Kantian thought, the most significant ones written between 1764 and 1804 have been collected in this book. There are three main themes addressed in these Reflections on Moral Philosophy: 1) freedom, understood as independence from all external imposition, and its regulation; 2) the supreme Good as the relationship between ethics and happiness; 3) God and religion. For Kant, the synthesis or unification between the first and second of these themes, that is, between the exercise of freedom and the morality that seeks happiness, is only possible by virtue of the existence of a God who integrates them, since only "He unifies happiness with good behavior."

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