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Die Metaphysik der Sitten in zwei Teilen (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1797); 2nd edition: 1798. [Ak. 6:205-355, 373-493] “The Metaphysics of Morals.” Translated by Mary J. Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, edited by Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 365-603. The two parts were published separately (in January and August, respectively): Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre (235 pp) and Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre (190 pp). The following year, apart from a scarcely altered second edition of the Rechtslehre (which does, however, include an appendix that replies to Bouterwek’s review of the Rechtslehre that appeared 18 Feb 1797) Kant also published: Erläuternde Anmerkungen zu den metaphysischen Anfangsgründen der Rechtslehre (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798), 31 pp. [Ak. 6:356-72]. “Explanatory Notes on the Metaphysical Foundations of the Doctrine of Right.” The Rechtslehre suffered from some textual corruptions at the printers [Mautner 1981]; a reconstruction of the text has been attempted in Bern Ludwig’s recent edition (Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 1986).