Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant's lectures on ethics.

Foreword J. B. Schneewind; Introduction Lara Denis and Oliver Sensen; Part I. The Sources: 1. Kant's lectures on ethics and Baumgarten's moral philosophy Stefano Bacin; 2. Herder: religion and moral motivation Patrick R. Frierson; 3. Collins: Kant's proto-critical position Manfred Kuehn; 4. Mrongovius II: a supplement to the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Jens Timmermann; 5. Vigilantius: morality for humans Robert B. Louden; Part II. Practical Philosophy: 6. Ancient insights in Kant's conception of the highest good Stephen Engstrom; 7. Kant's history of ethics Allen W. Wood; 8. Moral obligation and free will Oliver Sensen; 9. The elusive story of Kant's permissive laws B. Sharon Byrd; 10. On the logic of imputation in the Vigilantius lecture notes Joachim Hruschka; Part III. Ethics: 11. Freedom, ends, and the derivation of duties in the Vigilantius notes Paul Guyer; 12. Proper self-esteem and duties to oneself Lara Denis; 13. Virtue, self-mastery, and the autocracy of practical reason Anne Margaret Baxley; 14. Love Jeanine Grenberg; 15. Love of honor, emulation, and the psychology of the devilish vices Houston Smit and Mark Timmons; Works cited; Index.