Kant's Metaphysics of the Will

Freedom, Reason, and the Moral Law

Jaqueline Mariña (Purdue University, Indiana)

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Cambridge University Press
09 October 2025

Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; History of ideas; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

The idea of the individual as autonomous, capable of understanding through the use of reason what morality requires, and capable of doing the right thing because it is right, is one of the pillars of the Enlightenment, and Kant's ethics provides a robust account of the way in which the individual's capacity for moral insight, and freedom to make choices in accordance with such insight, are indispensable for any account of an authentic commitment to the objective good. Jacqueline Mariña situates Kant's ethical and metaethical arguments in the wider context of his claims in his critical works, convincingly rebutting recent claims that he did not succeed in showing that rational agents are necessarily bound by the moral law, and that he ended up with an empty moral dogmatism. Her book shows that the whole of Kant's critical works, both theoretical and practical, were much more coherent than many interpreters allow.

By: Jaqueline Mariña (Purdue University Indiana)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 504g
ISBN: 9781009574747
ISBN 10: 1009574744
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 09 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacqueline Mariña is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (2005), and the author of Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher (2008).

Reviews for Kant's Metaphysics of the Will: Freedom, Reason, and the Moral Law

'Kant's Metaphysics of the Will reveals the deep structure of the moral law, as Kant contextualizes and justifies it in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason. Mariña's philosophically rich and carefully argued study provides a sympathetic and non-mystical understanding of the trajectory from the Groundwork to the second Critique and is, hence, a welcome contribution to the long-standing debate on the moral law and its controversial justifications in Kant's critical metaphysics of morals.' Konstantin Pollok, Gutenberg Universität Mainz