PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gallows, If And Only If, Ion
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Goals, purposes: if i know that i am thirsty, then reason might go about helping me nd water. If i sneeze, you don"t hold me responsible, or if i have a seizure and spill my coffee. We hold people responsible for the things we think they have control over. Nothing is good in sort of an end in itself, or intrinsically good. The good will: gifts of fortune: power, riches, honour, wealth happiness itself (think about the bad guy in the movies. We want to see people be brought to justice. For making a person happy, instinct would have been better practical rational reason nature, it"s not happiness/desires: just notice that kant is saying that reason has something to do with the goals we achieve in life. Obviously not. this is an action contrary to duty. Kant will say that you would agree that this is wrong: 1.
