Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Humans as hybrids -- Kant's conception of reason -- Freedom and necessity -- The problem of transcendental freedom -- Conclusion -- 2. A brief exercise in transcendental idealism -- The nature of necessity -- The doctrine of ideas -- The doctrine of practical knowledge -- Conclusion -- 3. The moral law -- What is the moral law? -- Morality and the interests of reason -- Conclusion -- 4. The fact of reason -- The Grundlegung account -- The transition to the fact of reason -- The fact of reason -- Conclusion -- 5. The will -- The faculty of desire -- Negative freedom -- The highest maxim -- The principle of self-love -- Problems with Kant's theory of the will -- Conclusion -- 6. Value -- The predispositions of human nature -- Kant's theory of value -- Value and teleology -- Conclusion -- 7. The highest good -- The ambiguity in Kant's conception of the highest good -- The juridical conception of the highest good -- The maximal conception of the highest good -- Conclusion -- 8. Aufklärung -- The history of reason -- Aufklärung -- The possibility of progress -- Conclusion -- 9. Social life -- Human beings are destined for society -- Entering civil society -- Ethical community -- The highest good as a social conception of the good life -- Conclusion -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Works by Kant -- Secondary literature -- Subject index -- Index of names.