... are pushed by duty are understood to do it for duty's sake and not for any hidden motive. 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 ... 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 ulteri...

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... the deep, bitter tensions that arise from the clash between the powerful and the powerless" (136). 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). The role of religion for Marx then is to quench the emotional ... ...

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... , Kant felt that the principle of one's own happiness supports morality and puts virtue and vice in the same class(p.59). Kant did however; reject the actions done from direct inclination like in the principle of self-love. Kant also said that one must be able to will a moral action apply to all humans, and he or she must be willing ... ...

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... those who spend their lives learning of the Forms or Ideas, something which is crucial for successful political desicion-making, and therefore these philosophers have neither the time nor the inclination to participate in the politics of a government. In essence, it is Plato's belief that the best ruler is a philosopher who does not desire that position. How, then, is it just ... ...

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