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  • 7 - Moral feelings in the Metaphysics of Morals

  • Edited by Lara Denis, Agnes Scott College, Decatur
  • Book:
    Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
    Published online:
    10 January 2011
    Print publication:
    28 October 2010, pp 130-151

  • Summary

    In his lectures on ethics prior to the Groundwork, Kant insisted upon an indispensable causal role for feeling in the production of moral action. Kant's discussion of the "Aesthetic Preconditions of the Mind's Receptivity to Concepts of Duty in General" in Section XII of the Introduction to the Doctrine of Virtue is brief but raises many questions. The chapter explores what causal roles do these distinct "aesthetic preconditions" play and how do they relate to the causal role or roles of the single feeling of respect Kant previously recognized. It discusses Kant's exposition and then Kant's four aesthetic preconditions. The empirical consciousness of the moral law produces a general feeling of respect that causes or at least strengthens our commitment to acting in accordance with it and that needs to be and can be cultivated.