PHIL 0450 Lecture 27: Phil27
26 Jul 2016
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To kant this applies to every rational agent: ought implies can you must be able to do it two problems result. This is at odds of the fact that we cannot control our feelings. 1) people should show gratitude for benefits or favors. You can"t produce an emotion at will. 2) if someone ought to do something that he or she can do, then people are bound by whatever their character might happen to be (i disagree because we are in control of our own realities. We can still rationalize despite what our feeling say and we can rise above this). Kant says if we say a person ought to feel gratitude then that person must be able to. To kant you must be free in a very strong sense. 3) it"s committed to a conception of freedom to rise above and transcend what our character has made of us.
