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If you are commenting only in this forum, then please post a brief
comment on Kant's notion of the "good will." Explain whether you agree
with Kant's view that "an action done from duty must wholly exclude the
influence of inclination and with it every object of the will."
Explain whether you agree with Kant's view that "an action done from
duty must wholly exclude the influence of inclination and with it every
object of the will, so that nothing remains which can determine the will
except objectively the law."
Please be sure to use proper punctuation, and to avoid words and
phrases that are vague and general. Aim for precision. Use short
quotations from the primary text (the reading below) to develop and
support your argument. It is perfectly acceptable to discuss lines or ideas
that confused you.
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (selections)
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which
can be called good, without qualification, except a good will. Intelligence,
wit, judgement, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be
named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of
temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but
these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if
the will which is to make use of them, and which, therefore, constitutes
what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the gifts of
fortune. Power, riches, honour, even health, and the general well-being
and contentment with one’s condition which is called happiness, inspire
pride, and often presumption, if there is not a good will to correct the
influence of these on the mind, and with this also to rectify the whole
principle of acting and adapt it to its end. The sight of a being who is not
adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken
prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator.
Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even
of being worthy of happiness… A good will is good not because of what
it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some
proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition; that is, it is good in
itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all
that can be brought about by it in favour of any inclination, nay even of
the sum total of all inclinations...
Now an action done from duty must wholly exclude the influence of
inclination and with it every object of the will, so that nothing remains
which can determine the will except objectively the law, and subjectively
pure respect for this practical law, and consequently the maxim that I
should follow this law even to the thwarting of all my inclinations… Thus
the moral worth of an action does not lie in the effect expected from it,
nor in any principle of action which requires to borrow its motive from this
expected effect. For all these effects agreeableness of one’s condition
and even the promotion of the happiness of others - could have been
also brought about by other causes, so that for this there would have
been no need of the will of a rational being; whereas it is in this alone
that the supreme and unconditional good can be found…I am never to
act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become
a universal law…
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  • 1. If you are commenting only in this forum, then please post a brief comment on Kant's notion of the "good will." Explain whether you agree with Kant's view that "an action done from duty must wholly exclude the influence of inclination and with it every object of the will." Explain whether you agree with Kant's view that "an action done from duty must wholly exclude the influence of inclination and with it every object of the will, so that nothing remains which can determine the will except objectively the law." Please be sure to use proper punctuation, and to avoid words and phrases that are vague and general. Aim for precision. Use short quotations from the primary text (the reading below) to develop and support your argument. It is perfectly acceptable to discuss lines or ideas that confused you. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (selections) Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will. Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them, and which, therefore, constitutes
  • 2. what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the gifts of fortune. Power, riches, honour, even health, and the general well-being and contentment with one’s condition which is called happiness, inspire pride, and often presumption, if there is not a good will to correct the influence of these on the mind, and with this also to rectify the whole principle of acting and adapt it to its end. The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness… A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition; that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favour of any inclination, nay even of the sum total of all inclinations... Now an action done from duty must wholly exclude the influence of inclination and with it every object of the will, so that nothing remains which can determine the will except objectively the law, and subjectively pure respect for this practical law, and consequently the maxim that I should follow this law even to the thwarting of all my inclinations… Thus the moral worth of an action does not lie in the effect expected from it, nor in any principle of action which requires to borrow its motive from this expected effect. For all these effects agreeableness of one’s condition and even the promotion of the happiness of others - could have been also brought about by other causes, so that for this there would have been no need of the will of a rational being; whereas it is in this alone that the supreme and unconditional good can be found…I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law…