![]() The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals works backwards from this fact of our experience to determine by what "right" we feel these duties and choose to follow them. The ability to feel the pull of a duty whose legitimacy we recognize- even though we might feel inclined to do otherwise-is for Kant the basic fact of our experience that lets there be a moral philosophy at all. Duties are those things we feel that we must do-often in spite of the fact that we don't want to do them. Dutyįor Kant, duty is the opposite of inclination. For Kant, the law is the means by which human minds connect themselves to one another by seeing themselves as part of a community of rational thinkers. The appeal of the law for Kant is its ability to be universal, and therefore to bring us out of the problem of solipsism and relativism-namely, the belief that our moral judgments are relevant only for us, and that we have no right to hold others to the same standards. ![]() ![]() The law is a crucial concept in all of Kant's work, and he frequently uses law-related images and language, especially that of judging. Kant believes that for moral judgments to be valid they need to be based on a law, and to be formulated as a law. ![]()
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