Human Freedom as the Basis of Morality.
Date Submitted: 12/29/2004 03:08:49
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 5 pages (1250 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 5 pages (1250 words)
According to Kant, feeling of obligation is a moral feeling, a respect for the moral law. It has no external source and it is not imposed. The notion of obligation comes from us as rational, free beings. Human reason and freedom can only be source of moral law that is universal and binds everybody. Feeling of obligation cannot come from our knowledge-oriented experience because principles that directs the will in our relationships with objects are …
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…and time in order to be known. Thus, such innate ideas cannot be known because they cannot be represented in space and time and morality cannot be based on them. Thirdly, because we as rational, human beings decide give our moral decisions regardless of satisfactions objects give to us, our morality is not imposed to us. We decide by ourselves what we ought to do and we are not imposed what we must to do.
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