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This volume brings to English readers the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kant s moral and legal philosophy. Examining Kant s relation to predecessors such as Hutcheson, Wolff, and Baumgarten, it clarifies the central issues in each of Kant s major works in practical philosophy, including The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals. It also examines the relation of Kant s philosophy to politics. Collectively, the essays in this volume provide English readers with a direct view of how leading German philosophers are now regarding Kant s revolutionary practical philosophy, one of the outstanding achievements of German thought."