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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Everyone knows someone that can make his or her sunny day turn into a rainy, gloomy day. Or maybe someone has had an encounter with a person on the subway that bumped into you, knocked your bags down and still didn't have the audacity to say excuse me or can I help you with that? What comes to mi...

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• Grade Level: High School

He insists that it is our duty to do good (and we know this already, of course) but it is only morally good when it is done for the sake of doing good; that is, if it is done not in accordance with any other inclination other than fulfilling your duty of doing good. ...

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Modern science cannot be given sole responsibility for the diminution of intelligence and the rise of atheism and agnosticism. Nor can modern science be blamed for the death of metaphysics and the privatization and cultural eclipse of religion. Certainly there have been scientists who have been atheists and propounded a specifically materialistic metaphysics while simultaneously rejecting religion and metaphysics. Jacques Monod, a biochemist, says that: It is perfectly true that science attacks values. Not directly, since science is no judge of them and must ignore them... man must at las...

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Machiavelli, on the other hand, argues that politics is not natural, that ambitious men artificially construct political societies, and that ordinary men have a inclination to withdraw from political life and seek solitude. ...

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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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The level of influence that religion has on an individual's life has always been in question. People always wonder how much of their actions are the result of their own independent thoughts and how much is the result of external influence from social interactions. This essay discusses the level of i...

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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)*. ...

• Word Count: 2462
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate