Actions that are in accordance with duty carry self- interest and inclination, which Kant opposes. Kant is trying to cancel out these emotions (desires, and inclinations), because he believes that emotions cannot be trusted and can get us into trouble. ... In opposition, Kant opponents begin with desires/inclinations, and what pleases us. ... However critics of Kant have said that his motivation to action requires inclination and desire. Critics have also said that there is a major spilt between inclination and duty. ...

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Kant is supposed to have asserted that we are morally responsible for all of our actions because we have free will, and that we have free will because we exist in a noumenal world in which we are uninfluenced by the temptations of desire and inclination.... The free will that puts inclination above morality sacrifices its freedom for nothing...A crucial point in the Argument from Spontaneity is that the spontaneous will is not tempted by incentives of inclination. Now, we human beings are not so situated with respect to the incentives of inclination, because we are imperfectly rational beings....

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Kant argues that a metaphysics of morals is necessary for humans to correctly carry out the "right" or moral action in every situation, since they are often affected by numerous inclinations and desires at once. ... Therefore, individuals care for one another not out of inclination due to love, but rather out of a sense of duty to do so. 7. ... This kind of respect is not a response to any other influence, as other sentiments and inclinations are. ...

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If we are to be virtuous, we must do our duty and ignore our inclinations. ... A good will is earned through a human being acting rationally and discovering the inclinations and desires that cloud rational decision making. ... Kant also considers that humans have the ability to reason and through the exercise of reason, to act not in accordance with our inclinations but according to the demands that reason makes on us; from a sense of duty. ...

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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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