Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Practical Reason
26 Jan 2016
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Three ideas from book i of the groundwork: the good will, duty, moral worth** It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will. ". Not good character, not gifts of fortune, not even happiness. (why not happiness?) Book starts with talking about good will then trails off to duty then moral worth. Capacity of will is capacity to act for a certain reason. Good will isn"t conditioned by anything, it is good in itself. Things like courage, happiness, and fortune are only good if directed towards a good end. Isn"t saying happiness isn"t good, he"s saying it"s not good in itself, people don"t always do good things with happiness. We willtake up the concept of duty, which includes that of a good will, exposed, however, to certain subjective limitations and obstacles. ".
