Martin Sticker
Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love
Sticker, Martin; Saunders, Joe
Abstract
Kant holds that whenever we fail to act from duty, we are driven by self-love. In this paper, we argue that there are a variety of different ways in which people go wrong, and we show why it is unsatisfying to reduce all of these to self-love. In doing so, we present Kant with five cases of wrongdoing that are difficult to account for in terms of self-love. We end by suggesting a possible fix for Kant, arguing that he should either accept a pluralistic account of self-love, or move beyond the duty/self-love dichotomy entirely.
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Sticker, M., & Saunders, J. (2022). Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2022.2075457
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 11, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | May 24, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022 |
Deposit Date | May 26, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | May 26, 2022 |
Journal | Inquiry |
Print ISSN | 0020-174X |
Electronic ISSN | 1502-3923 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2022.2075457 |
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