Sticker, Martin and Saunders, Joe (2022) 'Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love.', Inquiry. .
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. Download PDF (2554Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2075457 |
| Publisher statement: | © 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. |
| Date accepted: | 11 March 2022 |
| Date deposited: | 26 May 2022 |
| Date of first online publication: | 24 May 2022 |
| Date first made open access: | 26 May 2022 |
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