Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution to moral philosophy that lays out clearly and concisely the ideas and arguments, including the famous categorical imperative, that would shape Kant's later works.[...]

In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy office[...]