POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Categorical Imperative, Universal Law, Misanthropy
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Good will and duty: good will=good intention. Idea that what is morality what is good only thing good is good will itself. Saving child moral goodness your intention is important. You do it because its right" not for the benefits of the interest. This is powerful because morality should be an equal opportunity. Everyone should have morals and having view of moral is tied with the personal morality kant is very clear that you cant base morality on love (love of humanity) because you cant command love. But morality should be there all the time. 16: good intentions, virtues and results, good intention= acting from duty, acting from duty vs. acting in conformity with duty: the troubling case of the misanthrope, duty-law-universal law, moral particle . He tries to analyze this in an abstract way of thinking of the idea of having to do something for duty sake.
