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- Title
The Change of Heart, Moral Character and Moral Reform.
- Authors
Damstra, Conrad
- Abstract
I examine Kant's claim in part one of Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason that moral reform requires both a 'change of heart' and gradual reformation of one's sense (R, 6: 47). I argue that Kant's conception of moral reform is neither fundamentally obscure nor is it as vulnerable to serious objections as several commentators have suggested. I defend Kant by explaining how he can maintain both that we can choose our moral disposition via an intelligible choice and that we become good through a continuous struggle. I then provide an interpretation of how moral reform occurs in the phenomenal realm.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 4, p555
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415423000304