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Single Idea 16004
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty
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Full Idea
Kant thought that man is his own law - he binds himself under the law which he gives himself. This is how lawlessness or experimentation is established. This is no more rigorously earnest than Sancho Panza's self-administered blows to his own ass.
Gist of Idea
If Kant lives by self-administered laws, this is as feeble as self-administered punishments
Source
comment on Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals [1785]) by Søren Kierkegaard - The Journals of Kierkegaard JP-I, 188
Book Ref
Kierkegaard,Søren: 'Journals and Papers Vol. 1', ed/tr. Hong,Howard/Edna [Princeton ], p.188
A Reaction
It really is tempting to go easy on yourself rather than on others. Kant had the right ideas, but human beings aren't as disciplined as the categorical imperative requires. [SY]
Related Idea
Idea 2934
To see one's own judgement as a universal law is selfish [Nietzsche]
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[reasons why someone should want to do their duty]:
3919
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Conclusions of reason do not affect our emotions or decisions to act
[Hume]
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5605
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Moral blame is based on reason, since a reason is a cause which should have been followed
[Kant]
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5632
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Moral laws are commands, which must involve promises and threats, which only God could provide
[Kant]
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4345
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For Kant, even a person who lacks all sympathy for others still has a motive for benevolence
[Kant, by Hursthouse]
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4251
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If we are required to give moral thought the highest priority, this gives morality no content
[Williams,B on Kant]
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16004
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If Kant lives by self-administered laws, this is as feeble as self-administered punishments
[Kierkegaard on Kant]
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3711
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Only a good will makes us worthy of happiness
[Kant]
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3713
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The function of reason is to produce a good will
[Kant]
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3729
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Our inclinations are not innately desirable; in fact most rational beings would like to be rid of them
[Kant]
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4344
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Actions where people spread happiness because they enjoy it have no genuine moral worth
[Kant]
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6186
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A holy will is incapable of any maxims which conflict with the moral law
[Kant]
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6195
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Reason cannot solve the problem of why a law should motivate the will
[Kant]
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21062
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The will's motive is the absolute law itself, and moral feeling is receptivity to law
[Kant]
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22448
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We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone
[Foot]
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24012
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Kant's love of consistency is too rigid, and it even overrides normal fairness
[Williams,B]
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2180
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If reason cannot lead people to good, we must hope they have an internal voice
[Williams,B]
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2179
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If the moral self is seen as characterless, then other people have a very limited role in our moral lives
[Williams,B]
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3255
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We find new motives by discovering reasons for action different from our preexisting motives
[Nagel]
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3552
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If excessively good actions are admirable but not required, then duty isn't basic
[Annas]
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