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Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love

Sticker, Martin; Saunders, Joe

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Martin Sticker



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.

Citation

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
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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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.




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