Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics. Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott.

Immanuel Kant.

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics. Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott.

London, New York, and Bombay:

Longmans, Green, and Co.,

1911.

Helena Belle Carpenter of Enosburg Falls, Vermont, was a student at Middlebury College when she read and heavily annotated this copy of Kant. For example, on page 17, she argues with Kant in the margins, noting: “If one is inclined to do his duty, | does then doing his duty lose its moral | quality? Yes, it is then holy; but Kant | says man can’t do that.” In addition to containing underlining and notes in its margins, the book also bears Carpenter’s printed bookplate. Readers’ interventions in the text are now an important and growing part of the study of the history of the book.

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