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What does it mean to act out of duty? Kant says this means that we should act from respect for the moral law. To do something because it makes you feel good or because you hope to gain something from it. What does it mean to act out of inclination? What makes the will good? The will is good when it acts out of duty, not out of inclination.

its presence gives humans their inherent dignity.

it is our power of rational moral choice.

found in humans but not nonhuman animals.

Kant says that only one thing is inherently good, and that is the good will. Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (complete text, pdf file)įor Kant, the morally important thing is not consequences but the way Jan Garrett Last revised: October 2, 2006įor a very substantial internet resource center on Kant,įor the text from which the ideas discussed below are primarily derived see Henry E.Kant's Duty Ethics Kant's Duty Ethics by Dr.

We do so by considering vulnerabilities a constitutive aspect of finite rational agents which must, therefore, be implied and considered in the process of moral construction.ĭietmar H. In section 4 we argue that: 1) vulnerabilities have moral relevance which adds merit to the project of finding objective moral norms, and 2) the inclusion of vulnerabilities as empirical contingencies is compatible with Kantian Constructivism.

In section 3 we explore whether Kant is a moral constructivist or moral realist, arguing that he might be read as a proto-moral constructivist whose formulas impose standards of correctness upon our moral judgments, from which we formulate moral norms as necessary facts of reason. In section 2 we establish that Kantian Constructivism – opposed to Humean Constructivism – seeks objective and universal moral norms through a process of rational construction and ratification of norms that does not draw on any kind of subjective attitude of valuing. In section 1 we present moral constructivism as a metaphysical project which grounds moral norms in the attitude of valuing by rational agents. Web of Science - Emerging Sources Citation Index.Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb.KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders).International Philosophical Bibliography - Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie.IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences).IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences).CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure).Kant Yearbook is covered by the following services: