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This 6 page paper discusses Kant's theories of morality and the will. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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morality and the will. Kants Moral Theory and the Idea of the Will For much of his career, Kant was preoccupied with the idea of a priori and a
posteriori knowledge; the first means things that we know just because we know them; the second means things that we know from experience. The existence of God is generally considered
a priori knowledge, because it cannot be proven logically, and so to accept that God exists is to accept that we have that knowledge because we have that knowledge.
This is important when we consider Kants concept of good will; good will is "that which can be conceived to be good without qualification, a good will" (Kemerling, 2001). Kant
believed that other "good features of human nature and the benefits of a good life" have value only in certain circumstances, "since they may be used either for good or
for evil. But a good will is intrinsically good; its value is wholly self-contained and utterly independent of its external relations" (Kemerling, 2001). Kant says that humans are better suited
to developing a good will than achieving happiness, so it follows that "the value of a good will does not depend even on the results it manages to produce as
the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of action, and that action has a
positive result, that has nothing to do with the value of a good will; it is intrinsically good, as noted above, and doesnt depend for validation on producing results. This
means that "Kants moral theory is ... deontological: actions are morally right in virtue of their motives, which must derive more from duty than from inclination" (Kermerling, 2001)."Morally right actions"
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