![]() ![]() ![]() Since both philosophers believed that all knowledge came from sensory experience, they believed that the same was true of moral judgments. ![]() The Groundwork is usually understood as a response to the moral theories of the Scottish Enlightenment, particularly those of David Hume, whose skepticism Kant engaged in the critique, as well as the economist Adam Smith. ![]() The Groundwork would serve as the basis for his later, expanded work, the Critique of Practical Reason, which Kant published in 1788. Just as the Critique was supposed to clear away the claims of previous philosophies in order to assess what we can legitimately know and how we can know it, the purpose of the Groundwork was to clarify the core concepts of morality and to demonstrate what relationship morality had to human beings. Where the Critique inquired into the human mind and asked what kind of knowledge we can legitimately claim, the Groundwork pushes into the realm of moral philosophy-asking what sorts of duties and obligations we have. In the Groundwork, Kant aims to extend the insights of the Critique. The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals was written in 1785, four years after Kant had written his magnum opus, The Critique of Pure Reason. ![]()
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