PHIL 3000 Lecture 14: Class 14
30 May 2016
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Class 14: only actions done from the motive of duty have moral worth. Three types of motives, a. from an immediate inclination to do it (x) from self-interest, either immediate or long term (x) b: because it is a moral maxim (*) Preservation of your own life even when you are despondent. Beneficence: give charity because you enjoy it. A common misunderstanding of kant: people used to thnk that kant believed an aciton loses moral worth when you have a motive to perform it. Rather, kant says an action losesmoral worth is you perform it because of your feelings rather than principle. Kant scholar, barbara herman: sympathy + long term care. Picturing ourselves acing charitably even when sympathy runs out. Happiness as an indirect duty: (399) we obligated to seek some measure of happiness, not for its own sake, but because it reduces temptation. Love thy neighbor : we cannot command an emotion.
