POL320Y1 Study Guide - Misanthropy, Practical Reason, Deontological Ethics
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It is that which acts from good will. The idea is to get us to do something that is right because it is right, not because you feel compelled to do so. He wasn"t"s to show how acting out of respect for the law can result into acting from duty. It means that you have some kind of a rule, and you are saying to yourself that you are not going to do bad things. You will give yourself a rule and stick by that rule, no matter what. When you give yourself a rule, you are motivated to follow it (no matter what), no matter what situation you are in you will follow that rule. He wants us to think about that idea following a rule, no matter what! Now matter what happens in history, wherever, there is this principle. It is like a universal law (a law that holds no matter what ex. 1+1=2).
