How long does it take to read Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals?
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant takes about 2 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 43 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1956. 148 pages, about 40,700 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Wow...I wouldn't normally try to give "the" summary for Kant's Groundwork. If you haven't read this -- read it! Kant asks what it would mean if morality exists. Unpacking this definition, he thinks that if morality exists, it has something to do with conformance to universal laws, and that if morality if binding for human beings, human beings have to be autonomous. For whether he thinks he can show that human beings are autonomous...read treatise 3!
Subjects: Morale, Ethics
