Compulsion or Attractiveness - A False Dichotomy? A Kantian Perspective on the Sources of Moral Motivation
The essay questions the dichotomy between push and pull motivation to act morally, asking for the motivational power of Kants categorical imperative instead, its functionality as well as its sources. With reference to Christine Korsgaard it can be shown that personal integrity together with the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2016]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 21-34 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804
/ Moral act
/ Motivation
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NCB Personal ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | The essay questions the dichotomy between push and pull motivation to act morally, asking for the motivational power of Kants categorical imperative instead, its functionality as well as its sources. With reference to Christine Korsgaard it can be shown that personal integrity together with the notion of an ideal common world form one single source of motivation, grounded in exercising our autonomy. In a last step this outline of a kantian ethics of automony is related to the notion of God, whose role is illustrated in Kants Religion Within in a surprising way. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v8i3.1666 |