Schönecker and Wood aim to explain exactly what Kant is saying throughout the Groundwork. Their aim is an accurate reading that pays close attention to textual details - including the structure of individual sentences and paragraphs that are hard to parse and often misread. It is an excellent, short (as they intend it to be) commentary. Schönecker and Wood stress that it is a joint product that is independent of the earlier work of each individual author, but readers familiar with their other work will recognize the influence of Wood's views about the Categorical Imperative (CI) on their treatment of Groundwork II and of Schönecker's account of the structure of the deduction of the CI on their treatment of Groundwork III. This volume is a slightly revised translation of a commentary on the Groundwork that Dieter Schönecker and Allen W.
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