Halla Kim explores the leading themes in Kant s philosophical ethics from a structural-methodological point of view to highlight the activities of reason vis-a-vis the blind forces of brute nature. Basing the study on Kant's short, but monumental, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kim also draws on other major writings by Kant and his critics. Kim shows that philosophical ethics, as Kant conceived it, must capture the gist of the ineluctable, inescapable, and irreducible freedom we strive to exemplify in our practical lives. Viewed this way, the moral law is none other than the law of...

This book explores some of the key components of, and connections between, religious and philosophical treatment of ethical notions and problems and the positions of their historical precedents and successors. This allows for a better understanding of Jewish ethics as a distinctive position, the key influences upon it and major developments within it, and its contribution to subsequent developments and debates (metaphysical, historical, methodological, and socio-political).