Kant, The Passions, and The Structure of Moral Motivation

Faith and Philosophy 28 (1):54-70 (2011)
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This paper is an account of Kant’s view of the passions, and their place in the structure of moral motivation. The paper lays out the relations Kant sees be­tween feelings, inclinations, affects and passions, by looking at texts in Metaphysics of Morals, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Anthropology, and Lectures on Education. Then it discusses a famous passage in Groundwork about sympathetic inclination, and ends by proposing two ways in which Kant thinks feelings and inclinations enter into moral judgment, and two ways in which this can go wrong. This analysis involves responding to Karl Ameriks on the question of whether Kant is an internalist about moral motivation.

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Overdetermined Actions and Imperfect Duties.Marcia Baron - 2006 - In Heiner F. Klemme, Dieter Schönecker & Manfred Kuehn (eds.), Moralische Motivation. Kant und die Alternativen. Hamburg: Felix Meiner. pp. 23-37.

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