This Modern Library edition offers a basic selection of Immanuel Kant's writings on the metaphysics of morality and politics. Here, a series of lucid translations enables the reader to appreciate Kant's towering importance as an ethical and social thinker and to understand his enduring influence on the shape of philosophy. The twelve essays in this volume have been carefully arranged by Professor Carl J. Friedrich to represent the range of Kant's most essential writings.  Professor Friedrich has contributed an original essay for this volume in the form of a brilliant interpretive Introduction which places Kant, the philosopher and the man, in his time and timelessness.