[lit-ideas] Re: Kant: Autonomy and Heteronomy of the Will
- From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 00:13:33 -0400
Erin Holder wrote:
"... wouldn't it be the case that a will that is determined by an object
(end) and is therefore not a moral will is also NOT FREE? And if a will
that is not moral is also not free, then how can any one be expected to
take responsibility for acts that are not moral?"
"Man himself must make or have made himself into whatever, in a moral
sense, whether good or evil, he is or is to become. Either condition
must be an effect of his free choice; for otherwise he could not be held
responsible for it and could therefore be morally neither good nor evil.
When it is said, Man is created good, this can mean nothing more than:
He is created for good and the original predisposition in man is good;
not that, thereby, he is already actually good, but rather that he
brings it about that he becomes good or evil, according to whether he
adopts or does not adopt into his maxim the incentives which this
predisposition carries with it ([an act] which must be left wholly to
his own free choice)." (Kant, _Religion Within the Limits of Reason
Alone_, Bk I, General Observation)
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Toronto, ON
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