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1405Kant on Moral Sensibility and Moral MotivationJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (4): 727-746. 2014.Despite Kant’s lasting influence on philosophical accounts of moral motivation, many details of his own position remain elusive. In the Critique of Practical Reason, for example, Kant argues that our recognition of the moral law’s authority must elicit both painful and pleasurable feelings in us. On reflection, however, it is unclear how these effects could motivate us to act from duty. As a result, Kant’s theory of moral sensibility comes under a skeptical threat: the possibility of a morally m…Read more
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19th Century Philosophy |
German Idealism |
Immanuel Kant |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte |
Indian Philosophy |
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Kant: Ethics |
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