The second being, people who are motivated by inclination/joy which Kant describes as an action which we want to do for our own sake or because you enjoy doing actions of that kind (Kant 326). To distinguish both of these motivations Kant explains that in order for an action to express a good will, it is not enough that it should be done for its own sake, meaning in Kant's ideology that a person motivated by inclination will help others in need but a person motivated by dutiful actions will help others for their own sake. Finally Kant explains that a person filled with inclination has no ...

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Utilitarianism, a conception of morality developed primarily by Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill attempts to bring back personal inclinations and interests into moral consideration. 1 It is based upon a form of hedonism, an ethical doctrine implying that the ultimate good is pleasure and what has pleasurable consequences and that the pursuit of pleasure in itself is what can be considered the 'highest good' and proper aim for human life. ...

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Marx saw religion as part of the mitigating complex called "ideology," embodying "the natural inclination of those who benefit from injustice to show why the circumstance that creates it should remain unchanged" (138). ...

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