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- Title
Kant's Duty to Make Virtue Widely Loved.
- Authors
Gregory, Michael L.
- Abstract
This article examines an appendix to the Doctrine of Virtue which has received little attention. I argue that this passage suggests that Kant makes it a duty, internal to his system of duties, to 'join the graces with virtue' and so to 'make virtue widely loved' (MM, 6: 473). The duty to make virtue widely loved obligates us to bring the standards of respectability, and so the social graces, into a formal agreement with what morality demands of us, such that the social graces give the illusion of virtue. The existence of such a duty can answer Schiller's persistent objection that Kant's ethics scares away the Graces with Duty.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 2, p195
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415422000103