Suppose that two things motivate you to do your duty: a sensuous inclination and a desire to do the right thing for its own sake. Then your sensual inclination
Suppose that two things motivate you to do your duty: a sensuous inclination and a desire to do the right thing for its own sake. Then your sensual inclination
People interpret Kant differently here.
Perhaps your act has great moral worth if you have both motives -- so long as your duty-motive would prevail even if you had a sensual inclination NOT to do your duty.
In any case, the lower motive makes the existence of the higher motive less certain.
Suppose that two things motivate you to do your duty: a sensuous inclination and a desire to do the right thing for its own sake. Then your sensual inclination
People interpret Kant differently here.
Perhaps your act has great moral worth if you have both motives -- so long as your duty-motive would prevail even if you had a sensual inclination NOT to do your duty.
In any case, the lower motive makes the existence of the higher motive less certain.