This question of whether Kant believes there is free will, is wholly inconsequential to a more complete understanding of the Kantian ethic or moral philosophy in general. ... The essay also assumes that Kantian philosophy is normative and not descriptive in order to lend clarity to the thesis. ... Here, a contradiction in the essay may seem apparent to the lay reader but to those versed in Kant's moral philosophy, it is readily dismissed. ... While Kant never had to deal with this particular and somewhat overused example, James Rachels in his Elements of Moral Philosophy attempts to...

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Mills believes that it does not matter what the motive of the action is, whether being duty or not, considering there is no system of ethics requiring that the sole motive of all we do shall be a feeling of duty. ...

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