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Kant on moral satisfaction
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dc.contributor.author | Walschots, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-07T14:30:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-07T14:30:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06 | |
dc.identifier | 247457952 | |
dc.identifier | 76b3cfb2-c2cb-495b-87ca-47c3483e110e | |
dc.identifier | 85018450647 | |
dc.identifier | 000400969000005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Walschots , M 2017 , ' Kant on moral satisfaction ' , Kantian Review , vol. 22 , no. 2 , pp. 281-303 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S136941541700005X | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1369-4154 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/9778 | |
dc.description | The author thanks the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the German Academic Exchange Service, as well as the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in Halle for their generous financial support that made research on this paper possible. | en |
dc.description.abstract | This paper gives an account of Kant’s concept of self-contentment [Selbstzufriedenheit], i.e. the satisfaction involved in the performance of moral action. This concept is vulnerable to an important objection: if moral action is satisfying, it might only ever be performed for the sake of this satisfaction. I explain Kant’s response to this objection and argue that it is superior to Francis Hutcheson’s response to a similar objection. I conclude by showing that two other notions of moral satisfaction in Kant’s moral philosophy, namely ‘sweet merit’ and the highest good, also avoid the objection. | |
dc.format.extent | 23 | |
dc.format.extent | 246478 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Kantian Review | en |
dc.subject | Self-contentment | en |
dc.subject | Garve | en |
dc.subject | Hutcheson | en |
dc.subject | Eudaimonism | en |
dc.subject | Pleasure | en |
dc.subject | Happiness | en |
dc.subject | Moral motivation | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy (General) | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B1 | en |
dc.title | Kant on moral satisfaction | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S136941541700005X | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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