Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor's preface
- Editorial notes and references
- Introduction
- Notes on text and translation
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF ETHICS
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Prize essay on the freedom of the will
- Prize essay on the basis of morals
- Variants in different editions
- Glossary of names
- Index
Preface to the second edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor's preface
- Editorial notes and references
- Introduction
- Notes on text and translation
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF ETHICS
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Prize essay on the freedom of the will
- Prize essay on the basis of morals
- Variants in different editions
- Glossary of names
- Index
Summary
Both prize essays have received quite considerable additions, which are mostly not long but are inserted in many passages and will contribute to the thorough comprehension of the whole. One cannot guess from the number of pages, because of the larger format of the present edition. They would, incidentally, have been even more numerous, had not uncertainty as to whether I would live to see this second edition necessitated my setting down the thoughts that belong here successively where I could in the meantime, that is, partly in the second volume of my main work, chapter 47, and partly in Parerga and Paralipomena, volume 2, chapter 8. –
So the essay on the foundation of morals that was condemned by the Danish Academy and rewarded merely with a public rebuke appears here in a second edition after twenty years. I gave the necessary discussion of the academy's judgment in the first Preface, and above all showed there that in the judgment the academy denies having asked what it did ask, and on the contrary claims to have asked what it did not ask at all; and indeed I have expounded this (pp. ix–xiv) so clearly, so extensively and thoroughly that no pettifogger in the world can obliterate it. What hangs on it here I really do not need to say. Concerning the conduct of the academy overall I do now have the following to add after a period of twenty years for the coolest deliberation.
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- The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics , pp. 28 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009